Tracking surgical trainees' performance on cadavers can be greatly enhanced by coupling step-by-step checklists and measures of general surgical skills works with a rigorous system for tracking errors ...

With information on surgical checklist use in hospitals finally public on Hospital Compare, about 12 percent, or nearly 500 hospitals, can’t definitively say whether certain checklists are being used.

Surgical checklists are most effective when all members of the surgical team are required to identify themselves and participate in the checklist process, according to a study from researchers at ...

Adding to the growing body of evidence on the benefits of surgical checklists, a new study in the December Journal of American College of Surgeons found that a surgical checklist, coupled with ...

Over half and sometimes almost 100% of the surgical complications can be prevented by following simple rules. The release of ‘ WHO Surgical Safety Checklist’ has for the first time provided ...

Proven patient safety solutions such as the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist are challenging to implement at scale. A voluntary initiative was launched in South Carolina hospitals ...

That line, from the 1980s TV sitcom “Different Strokes” theme song, could be considered one of the main lessons being learned today by healthcare professionals about the widespread, and frequently ...

Health chiefs hope to save hundreds of lives with the introduction of a checklist for surgeons. Every hospital in the country is being told to run through the simple routine before carrying out an ...

After hearing complaints about over-administration from healthcare workers, and, in particular, that the health community was binging on checklists, Science-ish knew something was awry when a poem ...

Training surgical teams in communication and using a procedure checklist before, during, and after surgery may significantly decrease 30-day postoperative complications such as surgical site ...