During an Oct. 9 webinar hosted by Becker’s ASC Review, Michelle George, RN, MSN, CASC, vice president of clinical services with Surgical Care Affiliates, and Lisa Sinsel, group director of clinical ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Nov. 17 edition of the ASCA Government Affairs Update, the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association is reminding ASCs that CMS is expecting them to use a safe surgical checklist for the entire ...

Surgical safety checklists have been hailed as powerful tools that help reduce deaths and complications, but these lists may not be all they're cracked up to be, Canadian researchers report. Despite ...

In this exclusive video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, chats with surgeon, author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, about his book The Checklist Manifesto: How to ...

A robotic safe-surgery checklist can reduce readmissions among patients undergoing minimally invasive robotic-assisted gynecologic surgery, according to a study by researchers at Akron, Ohio-based ...

Post-surgical deaths at South Carolina hospitals dropped 22% after implementation of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist. The state is the first in the U.S. to implement the ...

The rate of completion of a surgical safety checklist improved when a printed checklist was used as a memory tool, according to a study in BMJ Quality and Safety. Researchers studied the use of the ...

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 ...

Tracking surgical trainees' performance on cadavers can be greatly enhanced by coupling step-by-step checklists and measures of general surgical skills works with a rigorous system for tracking errors ...

Surgical safety checklists didn't improve operative mortality, readmission rates and emergency department visits within 30 days after discharge at Canadian hospitals, according to a study published in ...