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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surgical checklists are most effective when all members of the surgical team are required to identify themselves and participate in the checklist process, according to a study from researchers at ...

Can a surgical safety checklist reduce postoperative complications? The authors performed a before/after study in 8 hospitals located in 8 countries. They collected morbidity and mortality data on ...

McLeod Regional Health System surgeons now use a checklist for all cases to reduce errors and improve outcomes, according to Harvard Business Review. Anesthesiologist Michael Rose, MD, helped McLeod ...

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 ...

"The takeaway message is that checklists of procedural steps are a good way to assess the technical skills of these surgical residents. But they don't measure quality, highlighting a need to measure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...