The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...

PITTSFORD, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - Checklist Boards Corporation, (http://www.checklistboards.com) announced their Custom designed Checklist Safety Boards ...

Surgical safety checklists improve patient safety and even save lives. Yet anesthesiologists may be reluctant to use them in front of patients because they worry that doing so may increase patient ...

Hospitals and healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting structured clinical checklists to standardize care, reduce ...

Health IT startup QPID Health, formed at Massachusetts General, has rolled out its first clinical decision support tool for its cloud-based platform, QPID. It works on top of providers’ electronic ...

A promising way to reduce harmful surgical errors, it turns out, borrows a low-tech tool long used by airline pilots and grocery shoppers: The checklist. "It's evidence-based," says Leslie Ray, a ...

Action to prevent surgeons and their teams from operating on the wrong part of a patient was launched yesterday, providing the first national system of "pre-flight checks" for all hospitals. Although ...

A hospital in Windsor, Ont., is changing its surgical checklist in light of at least two cases at another local hospital where women had a breast removed even though they did not have cancer. Windsor ...

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 ...