Surgical checklists have long been thought to increase patient safety by standardizing practices and improving adherence to protocol for proper procedure before, during and after operations. They may ...

SCOAP (Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program), a program of the Foundation for Health Care Quality, provides a free, downloadable surgical checklist for ambulatory surgery. The one-page ...

A voluntary checklist-based program significantly reduced deaths following inpatient surgery in a collaborative group of 14 hospitals in South Carolina. A study shows that 3 years after implementing ...

The World Health Organization’s surgical safety checklist may have less of a benefit at hospitals adopting the checklist independently than hospitals adopting the checklist in an intervention research ...

Researchers found the degree of compliance to the World Health Organization’s surgical checklist can affect in-hospital 30-day mortality, according to a study published in the Annals of Surgery. For ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Using an exhaustive hospital checklist prevents errors and cuts the risk of death nearly in half for patients who come in for surgery, researchers reported on Wednesday. The system ...

Toronto, Ontario - An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, ...

Implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist at surgical centers in England led to a 37.2% relative reduction (from 1.21 to 0.76) in inpatient postoperative ...

Mark the surgical site. Ask about allergies. Count the sponges. Count the needles. Such simple reminders could prevent mistakes that endanger, disable and kill millions of people having surgery in ...

Using strategy, surgery deaths drop 18 percent on average over 3 years, according to Veterans Affairs study. CHICAGO — Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Mark the surgical site. Ask about allergies. Count the sponges. Count the needles. Such simple reminders could prevent mistakes that endanger, disable and kill millions of people ...