Hospitals in eight cities around the globe demonstrated that the use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower the incidence of deaths and complications by more than one third.

An easy method that promised to cut complications in surgery may not be so simple after all. You have full access to this article via your institution. Before making the first incision, confirm the ...

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 ...

Background. Previous research suggests that the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist time-out reduces communication failures and medical complications and supports development of better ...

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist provides guidelines for medical staff, but Dr Manoo Patel is concerned about a lack of adherence.(Getty Images) It's the stuff of nightmares—you go into hospital for ...

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, has found that ...

Chicago (December 5, 2012): As the nation grapples with surging health care costs, researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center ...

In 2010, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., implemented the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist to reduce infection rates in the operating room. While a ...

An aircraft-style safety test is to be implemented in all British hospitals to reduce the risks of surgery, using a simple checklist that has been proved to save thousands of lives. Surgeons and ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which has been in the vanguard of the patient safety movement for many years, is trying to get all U.S. hospitals to test the World Health Organization's ...

Health chiefs hope to save hundreds of lives with the introduction of a checklist for surgeons. Every hospital in the country is being told to run through the simple routine before carrying out an ...