Studies show a new checklist developed by the World Health Organization may reduce complications and death from surgery by as much as one-third. It is patterned after similar checklists used by ...

ATLANTA -- Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person's name to make sure you have the right patient. Count sponges to make sure you didn't ...

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 ...

Dr. Atul Gawande’s new book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” grew out of research that the surgeon and author did for the World Health Organization on ways to reduce surgical deaths worldwide. Gawande’s ...

Surgical safety checklists (SSC) can save lives and reduce lengths of stay but only if they are properly implemented in the operating room, according to a new study. Bolzano Central Hospital, 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 ...

As much of 75 percent of an operating room may not be sufficiently cleaned or disinfected. For example, the three best-cleaned items in an operating room — main door, main field light and telephone — ...

The use of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist in the operating room considerably lowers the risks of surgery. This is the conclusion of Axel Fudickar and co-authors in their ...

Surgery might be less risky for patients if they have their surgical team follow a safety checklist, according to new research. The study looked at the use of the World Health Organization's surgical ...

Imagine a plane starts barreling down the runway and just before it’s about to take off, the flight crew stops what they’re doing, runs through a two-minute generic “airplane” checklist, and then ...

Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the right surgery tools? Answering such basic questions from surgery checklists — and involving everyone as a team, even ...