Surgical Error
New Study Shows How Often Certain Surgical Errors Occur
A new study was recently published in the Archives of Surgery that attempted to determine how often certain types of surgical errors occur, according to Time.com.
The study looked specifically at wrong-site, wrong patient or wrong-procedure errors, such as a surgeon amputating the wrong limb, operating on the wrong patient or mistakenly removing a gallbladder instead of an appendix. The authors of the study looked at data from a liability insurance database with claims from January 2002 to June 2008.
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