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Sometimes the problems that you expect to be the easiest to fix turn out to be the most vexing. Since the Joint Commission first highlighted the problem of wrong-site surgery (1998), the issue has been the subject of summits, protocols, checklists and process-improvement projects across the country. And yet, surgeries on the wrong side of the body, the wrong site or even the wrong patient continue to occur an estimated 40 times every week, according to Joint Commission President Mark Chassin.
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