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 success of surgical safety checklists depends on leaders’ ability to persuasively explain why and show how to implement the checklist, according to a study in the Journal of the American College ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can a surgical safety checklist reduce postoperative complications? The authors performed a before/after study in 8 hospitals located in 8 countries. They collected morbidity and mortality data on ...

A new research report has concluded that after eight hospitals in eight countries implemented surgical safety checklists, they saw improved outcomes on several levels, with the number of post-surgical ...

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 ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. January 14, 2009 — Implementation of a surgical checklist is associated with lower death rates and fewer complications in patients aged at least ...

Toronto, Ontario - An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, ...

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 ...

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 ...