Notes

* The Joint Commission’s Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery [updated version, effective January 1, 2009] is available at http://www.jointcommission.org/ PatientSafety/UniversalProtocol/; accessed February 1, 2009.

 Part of our ongoing research will be to quantify the mortality and morbidity caused by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) since the 1940s.