Post-surgical deaths at South Carolina hospitals dropped 22% after implementation of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist. The state is the first in the U.S. to implement the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals in South Carolina that chose to participate in a statewide program implementing a form of the Surgical Safety Checklist developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) saw their death rates ...

Every hospital in the state has committed to putting a surgical checklist into use in its operating rooms. To support this effort, the partnership — Safe Surgery 2015: South Carolina — provides ...

Toronto, Ontario - An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark the surgical site. Ask about allergies. Count the sponges. Count the needles. Such simple reminders could prevent mistakes that endanger, disable and kill millions of people having surgery in ...

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 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 ...