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Combine Surgery Checklists to Boost Patient Safety and Clinical Outcomes

Combining the World Health Organization's operating room checklist with a preoperative and postoperative checklist benefits patients, research indicates. Joint use of the World Health Organization ...
The Conversation

What African countries can do about ensuring safer surgery

Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources. Shutterstock The World Health Organisation (WHO) has come up with plans and tools to help ...
Medscape

Surgical Safety Checklist Reduces Post-Op Deaths

Implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist at surgical centers in England led to a 37.2% relative reduction (from 1.21 to 0.76) in inpatient postoperative ...
Health Affairs

Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience

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 ...