A surgical checklist implemented at several South Carolina hospitals may have been one of the factors that led Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to name Atul Gawande, MD, CEO of their ...

Dr. Atul Gawande’s new book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” grew out of research that the surgeon and author did for the World Health Organization on ways to reduce surgical deaths worldwide. Gawande’s ...

Adding to the growing body of evidence on the benefits of surgical checklists, a new study in the December Journal of American College of Surgeons found that a surgical checklist, coupled with ...

Surgical checklists have long been thought to increase patient safety by standardizing practices and improving adherence to protocol for proper procedure before, during and after operations. They may ...

Chicago (December 5, 2012): As the nation grapples with surging health care costs, researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center ...

Ten years ago, checklists for surgeons were all the rage. Inspired by the preflight routines of airline pilots, surgical checklists were shown to prevent tragic errors, reduce infections and save ...

May 7, 2012 (San Antonio, Texas) — The Universal Protocol, designed to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgical errors, can be insufficiently effective for strabismus surgery.

In a Dec. 6 webinar hosted by Becker’s Healthcare, Linda Lansing, senior vice president of clinical services, and Kelly Bemis, director of clinical services at Surgical Care Affiliates, discussed ...

In 2010, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., implemented the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist to reduce infection rates in the operating room. While a ...