{"id":5732,"date":"2018-09-05T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/retained-surgical-sponge-never-means-never\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:00:06","slug":"retained-surgical-sponge-never-means-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/retained-surgical-sponge-never-means-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Retained Surgical Sponge: Never Means NEVER!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n   \n\nThe Problem\nThe term \u201cNever Events\u201d was used in 2001 to describe a subset of medical errors that, ideally, should never occur. Also known as \u201cSerious Reportable Events,\u201d they encompass a wide variety of surgical, device, patient protection, care management, environmental, radiologic and criminal events. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality currently defines 29 such events,[i] one of which is defined as \u201cUnintended retention of a foreign object in a patient after surgery or other procedure.\u201d The Joint Commission (TJC) lists 31 types of sentinel events; of such events voluntarily reported to TJC, the most common is \u201cUnintended Retention of a Foreign Body.\u201d[ii] In a review of paid malpractice claims from the National Practitioner Data Bank, Mehtsun and associates[iii] found that of 1,126 surgical retained foreign body events, 5% resulted in death, 16% in permanent injury, and 78% in temporary injury. This simply cannot be allowed to continue.\n\nSource: Hubspot\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Problem The term \u201cNever Events\u201d was used in 2001 to describe a subset of medical errors that, ideally, should never occur. Also known as \u201cSerious Reportable Events,\u201d they encompass a wide variety of surgical, device, patient protection, care management, environmental, radiologic and criminal events. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality currently defines 29&#8230;<a class='learnmore' href='https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/retained-surgical-sponge-never-means-never\/'>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}