The Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Council) has worked with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and the States and Territories to develop a protocol for the prevention of procedures performed on the wrong patient or part of the body. The protocol is in line with the RACS Correct Side and Correct Site Surgery Guidelines.
The Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure Protocol kit contains two workplace posters, two patient brochures and a Fact Sheet. These resources are available below:
- If time is money (PDF 39 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure (PDF 680 KB)
- Ensuring Correct Patient, Correct Site, Correct Procedure Fact Sheet (PDF 1170 KB)
- Patient Brochure - Understanding your procedures (PDF 180 KB)
- Patient Brochure - Understanding your surgery (PDF 182 KB)
This Protocol has been adapted with kind permission from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety (USA) Directive on Ensuring Correct Surgery.
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