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Table 3 Reponses on wrong-site surgery by respondents

From: Patient safety awareness among 309 surgeons in Enugu, Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey

Wrong-site surgery

N = 309

Yes

No

n (%)

n (%)

Ever witnessed wrong-site surgery

26 (8.4)

283 (91.6)

Awareness of any institutional protocol for preventing wrong-site surgery

120 (38.8)

189 (61.2)

Practice of any institutional protocol for preventing wrong-site surgery

Frequency(n)

Percentage (%)

 Never

151

48.9

 Rarely

50

16.2

 Sometimes

37

12.0

 Often

36

11.6

 Regularly

35

11.3

 Total

309

100%