Karolina Kogut, Nobhojit Roy, Mary E. Brindle The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has been a cornerstone of surgical ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization’s surgical safety checklist may have less of a benefit at hospitals adopting the checklist independently than hospitals adopting the checklist in an intervention research ...

Operating room teams were 74 percent less likely to miss a critical process of care during a surgical crisis when they used checklists than when they did not, according to a study in the New England ...

Background The World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist (WHO-SSC) is a global tool designed to enhance teamwork ...

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 ...

Given the evidence of how surgical checklists can reduce deaths and complications, it's a mystery why nearly 10% of hospitals still don't mandate their use and why another 12% can't say for certain ...

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 ...

Postoperative patients are strongly in support of surgical safety checklists, according to survey results published in BMJ Quality & Safety. Postoperative patients were sampled from surgical wards at ...

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, ...

In the quest to reduce the incidences of morbidity and mortality associated with surgery, a number of initiatives are being explored. Could a simple checklist provide an effective means of improving ...

Ten years ago, checklists for surgeons were all the rage. Inspired by the preflight routines of airline pilots, surgical checklists were shown to prevent tragic errors, reduce infections and save ...