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 ...

Researchers found the degree of compliance to the World Health Organization’s surgical checklist can affect in-hospital 30-day mortality, according to a study published in the Annals of Surgery. For ...

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 ...

Every hospital in South Carolina, led by the South Carolina Hospital Association, has vowed to implement the use of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist in all operating rooms by ...

WASHINGTON — Surgical teams that followed a basic cockpit-style checklist in the operating room, including such aspects as confirming the patient’s name and discussing expected blood loss, reduced the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surgical checklists not only save lives by preventing medical errors, they could also make a big dent in medical malpractice claims, Dutch researchers say. Scouring data ...

Surgical safety checklists didn't improve operative mortality, readmission rates and emergency department visits within 30 days after discharge at Canadian hospitals, according to a study published in ...

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 ...