Sticks and stones may break your bones — but if you need surgery, the right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England ...

Surgery might be less risky for patients if they have their surgical team follow a safety checklist, according to new research. The study looked at the use of the World Health Organization's surgical ...

SCOAP (Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program), a program of the Foundation for Health Care Quality, provides a free, downloadable surgical checklist for ambulatory surgery. The one-page ...

The World Health Organization’s surgical safety checklist may have less of a benefit at hospitals adopting the checklist independently than hospitals adopting the checklist in an intervention research ...

Surgical checklists are most effective when all members of the surgical team are required to identify themselves and participate in the checklist process, according to a study from researchers at ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Using an exhaustive hospital checklist prevents errors and cuts the risk of death nearly in half for patients who come in for surgery, researchers reported on Wednesday. The system ...

Toronto, Ontario - An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, ...

Postoperative patients are strongly in support of surgical safety checklists, according to survey results published in BMJ Quality & Safety. Postoperative patients were sampled from surgical wards at ...

Surgeries at Spokane hospitals returned to a rapid pace a month ago following a delay in nonurgent procedures because of COVID-19. Gov. Jay Inslee dropped an elective surgery postponement Feb. 18. Ron ...

Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person's name to make sure you have the right patient. Count sponges to make sure you didn't leave any ...

REUTERS - A surgical checklist, similar to what pilots use before every flight, can lower patient death rates -- though the drop was smaller than past research has found, a Netherlands study said. The ...