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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...