Checklists

Standard Written Checklists Can Improve Patient Safety During Surgical Crises

When doctors, nurses and other hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond when a patient experiences cardiac arrest, severe allergic reaction, bleeding followed by an irregular heart beat or other crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75 ...More
January 21, 2013
Posted in News
Washington Surgeons Set New Guidelines for Patient Safety

Washington state surgeons and the Strong for Surgery program announce today the release of standardized guidelines for pre-operative care in the form of pre-surgical checklists. Strong for Surgery is issuing a set of checklists and tools available to all surgeons to use in ...More
January 17, 2013
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Communications Training, Surgical Checklist Can Reduce Costly Postoperative Complications

As the nation grapples with surging healthcare costs, researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, have confirmed two simple cost-effective methods to reduce expensive postoperative ...More
December 5, 2012
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Checklists in the OR Support Patient Safety, Study Finds

The use of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Surgical Safety Checklist in the operating room considerably lowers the risks of surgery, according to a study conducted by Axel Fudickar and co-authors in their paper published in Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. The most ...More
November 5, 2012
Posted in News
Checklist Program Reduces Infections, Saves Lives and Money

A quality improvement program that saves lives by dramatically reducing potentially lethal bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units across the state of Michigan also saves those hospitals an average of $1.1 million a year, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. ...More
August 22, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Checklists Can Help Physicians Care for Critically Ill

Caring for patients in a medical intensive care unit in a hospital and flying a 747 are complicated tasks that require tracking thousands of important details, some of which could get overlooked. That's why the pilot has a checklist and a copilot to make sure nothing slips ...More
June 22, 2011
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Patient Checklist Legislation Passes Nevada Senate, Heads to Governor

In late May, the Nevada Senate passed A.B. 280, legislation sponsored by Speaker of the Assembly John Oceguera, implementing a patient checklist at medical facilities. "Requiring medical facilities to adopt patient checklists is something more and more states are doing ...More
June 2, 2011
Posted in News
Checklists, Culture of Accountability are Reinvigorating the Patient Safety Movement

The use of a medical or surgical checklist is now a familiar activity for many healthcare professionals, but experts are asking if they are impacting patient outcomes and contributing to patient safety in a meaningful way. And now, the data from a new study are indicating ...More
April 18, 2011
Posted in Articles
Communication Breakdowns Undercut the Effectiveness of Safety Tools, Impact Patient Outcomes

Healthcare professionals make calculated decisions daily to not alert their colleagues when a safety tool signals potential harm to a patient, according to a new study of 6,500 nurses and nurse managers released March 22 during a national briefing in at AORN Congress being ...More
March 22, 2011
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Checklist Cuts Lethal Ventilator-Associated Lung Infections

Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) — the most lethal and among the most common of all hospital-associated infections — dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff used a simple checklist designed by Johns Hopkins researchers. Such ...More
February 17, 2011
Posted in News