Surgical safety checklists improve patient safety and even save lives. Yet anesthesiologists may be reluctant to use them in front of patients because they worry that doing so may increase patient ...

New pre-surgical checklists, available from the Washington state initiative Strong for Surgery, aim to prevent adverse events, according to an Infection Control Today report. The checklists address ...

A hospital in Windsor, Ont., is changing its surgical checklist in light of at least two cases at another local hospital where women had a breast removed even though they did not have cancer. Windsor ...

Whenever someone is scheduled for an operation, the assigned nurse is required to fill out a “pre-op checklist” to ensure that all safety and quality metrics are being adhered to. Before the patient ...

A promising way to reduce harmful surgical errors, it turns out, borrows a low-tech tool long used by airline pilots and grocery shoppers: The checklist. "It's evidence-based," says Leslie Ray, a ...

Health IT startup QPID Health, formed at Massachusetts General, has rolled out its first clinical decision support tool for its cloud-based platform, QPID. It works on top of providers’ electronic ...

Action to prevent surgeons and their teams from operating on the wrong part of a patient was launched yesterday, providing the first national system of "pre-flight checks" for all hospitals. Although ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) identified patient safety in surgery as an important public health matter and advised the adoption of a universal peri-operative surgical checklist. An adapted ...