Combining the World Health Organization's operating room checklist with a preoperative and postoperative checklist benefits patients, research indicates. Joint use of the World Health Organization ...

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 ...

The success of surgical safety checklists depends on leaders’ ability to persuasively explain why and show how to implement the checklist, according to a study in the Journal of the American College ...

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 ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a comprehensive surgical checklist to help reduce the number of wrong-site surgeries and other ...

A new research report has concluded that after eight hospitals in eight countries implemented surgical safety checklists, they saw improved outcomes on several levels, with the number of post-surgical ...

WASHINGTON — Surgical teams that followed a basic cockpit-style checklist in the operating room, including such aspects as confirming the patient’s name and discussing expected blood loss, reduced the ...

In the quest to reduce the incidences of morbidity and mortality associated with surgery, a number of initiatives are being explored. Could a simple checklist provide an effective means of improving ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surgical checklists not only save lives by preventing medical errors, they could also make a big dent in medical malpractice claims, Dutch researchers say. Scouring data ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a comprehensive surgical checklist to help reduce the number of wrong-site surgeries and other ...