The World Health Organization encourages organizations to adapt the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist to their own needs (subject to certain requirements). To help organizations come up with their ideas ...

According to a patient safety toolkit, released by AAAHC’s Institute for Quality Improvement, using surgical and procedural checklists are effective in improving patient safety and health outcomes; ...

Proven patient safety solutions such as the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist are challenging to implement at scale. A voluntary initiative was launched in South Carolina hospitals ...

Manufacturing companies face a wide range of dangerous situations that can result in serious injury to employees and significant financial liability to the company. Because of this, comprehensive ...

Surgical safety checklists (SSC) can save lives and reduce lengths of stay but only if they are properly implemented in the operating room, according to a new study. Bolzano Central Hospital, a ...

A large-scale review of surgical safety checklist use, published in the June issue of Anesthesiology, found patients experience fewer complications after surgery if a checklist is used by the surgical ...

Recent events have put the simple medical checklist in the spotlight. For instance, the Department of Health and Human Services last summer highlighted work among Michigan hospital ICUs to sharply ...

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...