Since the 1930s, airplane pilots have run through checklists before taking off. Now the World Health Organization wants surgeons all over the globe to use them, too. Dr. E. Patchen Dellinger, a ...

Researchers found the degree of compliance to the World Health Organization’s surgical checklist can affect in-hospital 30-day mortality, according to a study published in the Annals of Surgery. For ...

Studies show a new checklist developed by the World Health Organization may reduce complications and death from surgery by as much as one-third. It is patterned after similar checklists used by ...

Surgeries, big and small, can result in unexpected, and sometimes fatal, outcomes. But a study published Tuesday by researchers at the University of Birmingham found that by utilizing global surgical ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Mark the surgical site. Ask about allergies. Count the sponges. Count the needles. Such simple reminders could prevent mistakes that endanger, disable and kill millions of people ...

Mark the surgical site. Ask about allergies. Count the sponges. Count the needles. Such simple reminders could prevent mistakes that endanger, disable and kill millions of people having surgery in ...

Healthcare professionals in South Carolina have introduced a goal of implementing surgical safety checklists into every single operating room cross the state, a practice that is estimated to save 500 ...