TY - JOUR T1 - Editorial - Wrong-Site Surgery AU - Cowell, Henry R. Y1 - 1998/04/01 N1 - JO - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery SP - 463 EP - 463 VL - 80 IS - 4 N2 - The Task Force obtained data on 110,000 physicians from the records of the Physician Insurers Association of America. These data showed that a total of 331 claims involving wrong-site surgery were submitted in all surgical disciplines from January 1, 1985, through December 31, 1995. Two hundred and twenty-five of these claims were related to orthopaedic procedures. SN - 0021-9355 M3 - doi: UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ER -