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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers found the degree of compliance to the World Health Organization’s surgical checklist can affect in-hospital 30-day mortality, according to a study published in the Annals of Surgery. For ...

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 ...

Hospitals in South Carolina that chose to participate in a statewide program implementing a form of the Surgical Safety Checklist developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) saw their death rates ...

April 17 (UPI) --A new study found a significant reduction in post-surgical deaths in South Carolina after a World Health Organization, or WHO, program was implemented at hospitals serving nearly 40 ...

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 having surgery in ...

Surgeries, big and small, can result in unexpected, and sometimes fatal, outcomes. But a study published Tuesday by researchers at the University of Birmingham found that by utilizing global surgical ...