The World Health Organization encourages organizations to adapt the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist to their own needs (subject to certain requirements). To help organizations come up with their ideas ...

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 ...

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to help healthcare providers and organizations build a sustainable and effective patient safety checklist. The checklist for checklists was ...

In the wake of Johns Hopkins' success in virtually eliminating intensive-care unit bloodstream infections via a simple five-step checklist, the safety scientist who developed and popularized the tool ...

A large-scale review of surgical safety checklist use, published in the June issue of Anesthesiology, found patients experience fewer complications after surgery if a checklist is used by the surgical ...

It’s been 10 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) advocated that every hospital in the world use a 19-item checklist to improve patient safety in surgery. So, how often is it used? A new ...

Surgical safety checklists didn't improve operative mortality, readmission rates and emergency department visits within 30 days after discharge at Canadian hospitals, according to a study published in ...

Patients experience fewer postoperative complications when a surgical safety checklist is used by their surgical team, reports the first large-scale review on the subject. By following a simple ...