Founded and directed by the Safety in Spine Surgery Project (S3P), and chaired by Michael Vitale, MD, the goal of this project is to improve safety in spine surgery by sharing guidelines, techniques, and protocols that make care better, and to share lessons learned from participants who developed specific, successful safety protocols.
This will be accomplished by the partnership of S3P with surgeons, medical professionals, medical device companies, and hospitals.
Over time the S3P project will help improve the statistics showing high numbers of medical and surgical errors that have recently been highlighted by US government agencies, medical societies, patient groups, and throughout the media. These errors cause unnecessary human suffering, damage the reputation of the medical community, and dramatically increase costs.
