South Carolina hospitals are scheduled to start rolling out operating room surgical safety checklists, aimed at reducing the number of surgical errors that occur every year, according to a Greenville ...

KOLOA, Hawaii — Having a standard method of communication in place for staff helps prevent wrong intravitreous injections, according to a speaker here. During a Retina 2023 presentation, Robin A. Vora ...

Using an electronic medication checklist to gain patient medication histories significantly reduces errors compared with a paper-based checklist, a recent study found. The study, conducted last year ...

Use of a presurgical checklist reduced in-hospital mortality, study found. Incorporating an oral checklist into surgical procedures slashed complications and death rates by more than a third, ...

Checklists or similar tools decreased the rate of equipment errors in operating rooms by nearly half, according to a study in BMJ Quality & Safety. A review of 28 studies revealed surgical errors were ...

Train yourself to pay attention to your errors. Keep a record of them. Then, review them regularly to avoid making them again. This includes a close look at our mistakes. As I realized recently, more ...

This prospective quality improvement study was conducted at the RT unit of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre and King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from ...

“Medical billers and coders deal with a multitude of payers, each with their own set of parameters for submitting claims,” said Chhoda. “Many rejections are the result of simple but preventable ...