Combining the World Health Organization's operating room checklist with a preoperative and postoperative checklist benefits patients, research indicates. Joint use of the World Health Organization ...

Adding to the growing list of safety checklists, the newly released "Checklists to Improve Patient Safety" focuses on 10 quality improvement areas targeted by the federal government's hospital ...

Surgical safety checklists have been hailed as powerful tools that help reduce deaths and complications, but these lists may not be all they're cracked up to be, Canadian researchers report. Despite ...

A safety checklist designed to cut the risk of surgical complications is to be circulated to doctors world-wide. The list has been drawn up by the World Health Organization (WHO), which says half of ...

Recent events have put the simple medical checklist in the spotlight. For instance, the Department of Health and Human Services last summer highlighted work among Michigan hospital ICUs to sharply ...

A large-scale review of surgical safety checklist use, published in the June issue of Anesthesiology, found patients experience fewer complications after surgery if a checklist is used by the surgical ...

Your business is subject to many operational, regulatory, and compliance risks. KPA’s EHS Checklist gives you an overview of some of the documents, training, and procedures that are required by many ...

The use of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist in the operating room considerably lowers the risks of surgery, according to a new study. The use of the World Health ...

Proven patient safety solutions such as the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist are challenging to implement at scale. A voluntary initiative was launched in South Carolina hospitals ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released a new health checklist to help airlines self-assess their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The IATA Health Safety Checklist for ...