New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting in Berlin suggests that the WHO-approved safe surgery checklist is working well in both high-income and developing countries. The study is ...

Implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist at surgical centers in England led to a 37.2% relative reduction (from 1.21 to 0.76) in inpatient postoperative ...

Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources. Shutterstock The World Health Organisation (WHO) has come up with plans and tools to help ...

The Safe Surgery 2015 Initiative, a project of the Boston-based Harvard School of Public Health, is offering a guide to proper implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Program. The ...

Hospitals in eight cities around the globe demonstrated that the use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower the incidence of deaths and complications by more than one third.

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 ...

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 ...