Skip to main content

All Access Subscription

Get unlimited access to our full publication and article library.

Get Access Now

Interested in Group Sales? Learn more

Due to continuing reports of wrong-site surgeries and continuing concern from the field, The Joint Commission in 2009 took a look at its Universal Protocol and its No. 1 purpose — to prevent wrong-site, wrong-person, or wrong-procedure surgeries.

Changes to Universal Protocol released