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 ...
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority developed a sample preoperative checklist to ensure accuracy in documentation and safe surgery. The checklist notes to write legibly and avoid use of ...
Adding to the growing body of evidence on the benefits of surgical checklists, a new study in the December Journal of American College of Surgeons found that a surgical checklist, coupled with ...
Evidence from observational studies that the use of surgical safety checklists results in striking improvements in surgical outcomes led to the rapid adoption of such checklists worldwide. However, ...
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 ...
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 ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveData, a surgical capacity optimization solution company, today announced that it will demonstrate LiveData OR-Dashboard™ with Active Time Out®, the company’s ...
Can you please give an overview of perioperative practice? How does it differ from generalised practice? Perioperative practice is quite a specialised area focused on patients who are undergoing ...
The rate of patient death after surgery in South Carolina hospitals decreased substantially in hospitals that implemented a checklist developed by the World Health Organization, according to a summary ...
A voluntary checklist-based program significantly reduced deaths following inpatient surgery in a collaborative group of 14 hospitals in South Carolina. A study shows that 3 years after implementing ...
Two simple cost-effective methods to reduce expensive postoperative complications—communications team training and a surgical checklist were confirmed by researchers. Two simple cost-effective methods ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results