An international pilot study involving Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, has found that using a ...

Patient safety in hospitals has traditionally depended on careful clinical practice, communication and checklists. But as healthcare becomes more complex, hosp ...

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 published in the June issue ...

Preventing infections after a surgical procedure is important in any setting, but these complications can be particularly dangerous to surgical patients in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To ...

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 ...

Discover the surgical checklist benefits that led to a 47% reduction in surgery death rates and improved patient safety. The next big break through in surgery might not be a sophisticated new tool or ...

Checklists are often used in healthcare settings, like operating rooms, to try to prevent adverse patient events like surgical site infections or wrong-site surgery. But checklist-based quality ...

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 ...

The implementation of surgical safety checklists (SSCs) at a tertiary care hospital was associated with a reduced risk of death within 90 days after surgery, but not within 30 days, according to a ...

In the quest to reduce the incidences of morbidity and mortality associated with surgery, a number of initiatives are being explored. Could a simple checklist provide an effective means of improving ...

Sticks and stones may break your bones — but if you need surgery, the right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England ...