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 ...

In the world of healthcare, the medical checklist has become a superstar. In essence, it seems like a simple, easy-to-use method that has been used by hospitals for functions such as preventing ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a comprehensive surgical checklist to help reduce the number of wrong-site surgeries and other ...

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to help healthcare providers and organizations build a sustainable and effective patient safety checklist. The checklist for checklists was ...

Erik Steele, DO, chief medical officer of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, advocates for the use of a patient-driven checklist for safe hospital care in a two-part series in the Bangor Daily News.

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...

Ten free checklists developed by Cynosure Health to help healthcare organizations improve patient safety are available from the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The ...

Checklists have been touted as a method of elevating quality of care in hospitals for years. Yet, the medical community does not fully embrace them. Even Atul Gawande, MD, who literally wrote a ...

In the wake of Johns Hopkins' success in virtually eliminating intensive-care unit bloodstream infections via a simple five-step checklist, the safety scientist who developed and popularized the tool ...

The National Patient Safety Foundation offers a free checklist that encourages patients to take an active role in their healthcare. The checklist includes actions that patients can take to partner ...