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 ...

Using a hospital safety checklist to reduce lethal bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units (ICUs) not only saves lives but also thousands of dollars, according to new Johns Hopkins ...

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 ...

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 implementation of a surgical safety checklist can minimise post-operative complications, according to a study. To evaluate the impact of a surgical check list, the department of gastrointestinal ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) identified patient safety in surgery as an important public health matter and advised the adoption of a universal peri-operative surgical checklist. An adapted ...