When resistance to change mounts, leaders who empathize with resisters are much more effective than those who fight back, according to Harvard Business Review. Michael Rose, MD, an anesthesiologist ...

McLeod Regional Health System surgeons now use a checklist for all cases to reduce errors and improve outcomes, according to Harvard Business Review. Anesthesiologist Michael Rose, MD, helped McLeod ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surgery may be safer than ever here as the three largest Tulsa hospitals implement a safe surgery checklist proven to reduce deaths by 40 percent and complications by a third. Developed by a medical ...

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, ...

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 ...

April 17 (UPI) --A new study found a significant reduction in post-surgical deaths in South Carolina after a World Health Organization, or WHO, program was implemented at hospitals serving nearly 40 ...

When resistance to change mounts, leaders who empathize with resisters are much more effective than those who fight back, according to Harvard Business Review. Michael Rose, MD, an anesthesiologist ...

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 ...

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 ...