Ten free checklists developed by Cynosure Health to help healthcare organizations improve patient safety are available from the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The ...
Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to help healthcare providers and organizations build a sustainable and effective patient safety checklist. The checklist for checklists was ...
Recent events have put the simple medical checklist in the spotlight. For instance, the Department of Health and Human Services last summer highlighted work among Michigan hospital ICUs to sharply ...
A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...
Pilots and flight crews have long relied on the use of checklists and brief huddles to prevent errors and the concept has made its way to healthcare, particularly in operating rooms. But the patient ...
When hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond to a medical crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75 percent less likely to miss a critical clinical step. When ...
Checklists have been touted as a method of elevating quality of care in hospitals for years. Yet, the medical community does not fully embrace them. Even Atul Gawande, MD, who literally wrote a ...
Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...
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 ...
Dr. Peter Pronovost, whose accomplishments include inventing a patient-safety checklist that’s now used to prevent infection at health care facilities across the country, has moved into the chief ...
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 ...