Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: 10 Checklists to Improve Patient Safety

Ten free checklists developed by Cynosure Health to help healthcare organizations improve patient safety are available from the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Checklist for Checklist Development

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to help healthcare providers and organizations build a sustainable and effective patient safety checklist. The checklist for checklists was ...
DrBicuspid

Want to improve patient safety? Make a checklist

Checklists may be a practical and efficient way to improve patient safety in the dental office. Two safety experts explained why in the July issue of the Journal of the California Dental Association.
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: Checklist for Analgesia Pump Safety

A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...
HealthLeaders Media

Use Medical Checklists as Tools, Not Cure-Alls, for Patient Safety Problems

Recent events have put the simple medical checklist in the spotlight. For instance, the Department of Health and Human Services last summer highlighted work among Michigan hospital ICUs to sharply ...
Fierce Healthcare

Can mandatory checklists actually improve patient safety?

In the world of healthcare, the medical checklist has become a superstar. In essence, it seems like a simple, easy-to-use method that has been used by hospitals for functions such as preventing ...
Fierce Healthcare

Patient safety checklists mandated by state law

Patient safety checklists are now state law, as Nevada signed the Patient Protection Checklist bill (AB 280) into legislation yesterday. More recently spearheaded by advocate Atul Gawande, MD, author ...
HealthLeaders Media

MGMA: Patient Safety Checklists Cut Costs at Physician Practices

A nurse would follow the steps from memory, but stop at a certain point to review the checklist to confirm that everything that needs to happen is happening. Read-do is a typical checklist. The order ...
Science Daily

Standard written checklists can improve patient safety during surgical crises

When hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond to a medical crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75 percent less likely to miss a critical clinical step. When ...
Yahoo Finance

Users Report That Checklist Boards Corp.'s Patient Safety Checklists Boards Reduce Medical Procedural Errors and Patient Infections in Hospital Setting

PITTSFORD, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - Checklist Boards Corporation, (http://www.checklistboards.com) announced their Custom designed Checklist Safety Boards ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

The latest version of the checklist was released in Sept. 2009. While the content of the 19 checklist items remains unchanged from the previous version, the wording of each checklist item has been ...