From Compliance to Collaboration to Culture: A Prospective Evaluation of the HIPESAC Timeout and Patient Safety Advocate Platform.
BACKGROUND The Universal Protocol has standardized pre-procedural verification since 2004, yet procedural sentinel events persist; 127 wrong-surgery events were reported nationally in 2024. Compliance-based checklists may be insufficient for the human-factors environment of complex procedural care. METHODS In a prosp...