Reporting sentinel events is voluntary, and the data shows that the higher proportion of sentinel events in ASCs and ambulatory settings means there were more reported from those settings, not that they occur more frequently there.
For hospitals and other ambulatory care settings, wrong site events and unintended foreign object retention were the most frequent sentinel events. Wrong site events occurred most often in orthopedics, dentistry and ophthalmology.
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