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To the Editor: Several US state medical boards or legislatures have begun drafting regulations that would limit surgical procedures that could be performed in physicians' offices. Although such efforts are often motivated by sensational accounts in the popular press, there are little available data on the incidence of injuries that occur in such settings.¹

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In February 2000, the state of Florida mandated that physicians report all office incidents that resulted in death, brain damage, or spinal damage or that included a procedure that was performed on the wrong person, a procedure to remove an unplanned foreign object left from a preceding surgical procedure, any condition that required transfer of a patient to a licensed hospital, a surgical procedure performed on wrong site, wrong surgical procedure being performed, or surgical repair of injuries or damage from a planned surgical procedure.

Data collected by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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