What is the evidence regarding time out prior to invasive procedures?

Below are links to 2 PubMed searches on the concepts of time outs and invasive procedures. There may be some overlap in results, however together they cover a range of studies, guidelines and reports on time outs.

Click the links to run the searches:

“medical errors/prevention and control”[mesh] AND (“time out” OR “time outs”)

protocol wrong site procedure prevention

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