A specialist hospital trust has designed a pre-surgery checklist which aims to promote patient choice and accommodate people with beliefs. The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, which is the only ...

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 ...

Theatre nurses and colleagues are celebrating 10 years of a surgical checklist, which has helped save countless lives and improved outcomes for patients in England and around the world. Over the past ...

A recent study in Ontario, Canada, found surgical safety checklists may not be as effective in improving quality outcomes as previously believed, according to research published in New England Journal ...

The SURPASS checklist, developed by researchers in the Netherlands to reduce complication and mortality rates, has made this tool available for use. The SURPASS checklist (SURgical Patient Safety ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. January 14, 2009 — Implementation of a surgical checklist is associated with lower death rates and fewer complications in patients aged at least ...

Pilots use a detailed pre-flight checklist before taking passengers’ lives into their hands. So why shouldn’t operating room surgeons and nurses be subjected to the same rigorous preparation? That’s ...

The rate of patient death after surgery in South Carolina hospitals decreased substantially in hospitals that implemented a checklist developed by the World Health Organization, according to a summary ...

A new, worldwide study by the Harvard School of Public Health shows that using a short checklist during major surgeries dramatically reduces deaths and complications. The simple checklist requires ...

Patients feel safer – and likely are safer – when they receive a surgical safety checklist and request that their health care providers use it, suggests a pilot study. Patients feel safer -- and ...

University of Washington Medical Center is one of eight hospitals worldwide testing a surgical checklist unveiled by the World Health Organization. The checklist also includes items from a statewide ...