A recent study in Ontario, Canada, found surgical safety checklists may not be as effective in improving quality outcomes as previously believed, according to research published in New England Journal ...

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 ...

Hospitals in eight cities around the globe demonstrated that the use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower the incidence of deaths and complications by more than one third.

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 ...

ATLANTA -- Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person's name to make sure you have the right patient. Count sponges to make sure you didn't ...

April 17 (UPI) --Around the world, approximately 234 million surgeries take place and many deaths occur during the process. After the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist went into ...

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 ...

Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person's name to make sure you have the right patient. Count sponges to make sure you didn't leave any ...

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 ...