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 ...

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 ...

During an Oct. 9 webinar hosted by Becker’s ASC Review, Michelle George, RN, MSN, CASC, vice president of clinical services with Surgical Care Affiliates, and Lisa Sinsel, group director of clinical ...

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 ...

Surgical teams that followed a basic cockpit-style checklist in the operating room, from confirming the patient's name to discussing expected blood loss, reduced the rate of deaths and complications ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Checklists are big in operating rooms and other healthcare settings in well-intentioned efforts to prevent adverse patient events. And proponents cite studies that emphasize their effectiveness. Could ...

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 ...