The World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist appears to improve safety and patient outcomes when adhered to in the operating room, according to an analysis of 20 studies. Axel ...

Testing an important concept introduced by World Health Organisation (WHO), which has brought in a checklist to reduce avoidable complications during surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) has ...

The latest version of the checklist was released in Sept. 2009. While the content of the 19 checklist items remains unchanged from the previous version, the wording of each checklist item has been ...

Patients experience fewer postoperative complications when a surgical safety checklist is used by their surgical team, reports the first large-scale review on the subject. By following a simple ...

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 ...

In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a “ surgical safety checklist ” with the touch of halving the mortality rate from surgery, and urged hospitals around the world to implement it.

Area hospital administrators say they may supplement safety procedures with an international surgical checklist they recently tested. The checklist, compiled by the World Health Organization, is ...