The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Having step-by-step checklists on hand may help doctors and nurses better manage emergencies in the operating room, according to a U.S. study. Those lists can save time and ...

Surgical safety checklists improve patient safety and even save lives. Yet anesthesiologists may be reluctant to use them in front of patients because they worry that doing so may increase patient ...

Studies show a new checklist developed by the World Health Organization may reduce complications and death from surgery by as much as one-third. It is patterned after similar checklists used by ...

Over the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to quality and risk management in medicine. Haynes et al., in a path-breaking study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009, ...

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 ...