In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a “ surgical safety checklist ” with the touch of halving the mortality rate from surgery, and urged hospitals around the world to implement it.

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 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Mark the surgical site. Ask about allergies. Count the sponges. Count the needles. Such simple reminders could prevent mistakes that endanger, disable and kill millions of people ...

Surgery has become an integral part of global health care, with an estimated 234 million operations performed yearly. Surgical complications are common and often preventable. We hypothesized that a ...

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 ...

Since the 1930s, airplane pilots have run through checklists before taking off. Now the World Health Organization wants surgeons all over the globe to use them, too. Dr. E. Patchen Dellinger, a ...

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 ...

The latest version of the checklist was released in Sept. 2009. While the content of the 19 checklist items remains unchanged from the previous version, the wording of each checklist item has been ...

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The Tow Center would like to thank Dr. Svetlana Borodina and the Harriman Institute for translating this presentation into Russian. This checklist is meant to be used as a reporting tool to help ...