Prioritizing patient safety before, during, and after surgery is critical. This guide highlights essential precautions, the WHO checklist, and expert advice for safe procedures and effective post ...

We hypothesized that a program to implement a 19-item surgical safety checklist designed to improve team communication and consistency of care would reduce complications and deaths associated with ...

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 ...

Becker’s Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control finds and is provided with a wide range of downloadable tools and resources designed to help healthcare providers improve the quality of ...

Over half and sometimes almost 100% of the surgical complications can be prevented by following simple rules. The release of ‘ WHO Surgical Safety Checklist’ has for the first time provided ...

Liberal health spokesman Jeremy Hanson says an internal audit last year found that only about half of surgical safety checklists were completed.

Make sure the checklists are functional and provide useful data to validate or if needed improve the quality of care your provide.” This is accomplished in the infection control monthly checklist used ...

In two weeks, nearly 5,000 government surgical specialists in Tamil Nadu would get a manual containing protocols and checklists for safe surgeries, Health Minister Ma.