During an Oct. 9 webinar hosted by Becker’s ASC Review, Michelle George, RN, MSN, CASC, vice president of clinical services with Surgical Care Affiliates, and Lisa Sinsel, group director of clinical ...

Surgical Care Affiliates Senior Vice President of Clinical Services & Training Linda Lansing and Vice President of Clinical Services Michelle George gave a presentation titled “Implementing Safe ...

In this exclusive video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, chats with surgeon, author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, about his book The Checklist Manifesto: How to ...

A robotic safe-surgery checklist can reduce readmissions among patients undergoing minimally invasive robotic-assisted gynecologic surgery, according to a study by researchers at Akron, Ohio-based ...

Surgical safety checklists have been hailed as powerful tools that help reduce deaths and complications, but these lists may not be all they're cracked up to be, Canadian researchers report. Despite ...

Post-surgical deaths at South Carolina hospitals dropped 22% after implementation of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist. The state is the first in the U.S. to implement the ...

It’s been 10 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) advocated that every hospital in the world use a 19-item checklist to improve patient safety in surgery. So, how often is it used? A new ...

Hospitals in South Carolina that completed a voluntary, statewide program to implement the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist had a 22 percent reduction in post-surgical deaths. The ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. January 14, 2009 — Implementation of a surgical checklist is associated with lower death rates and fewer complications in patients aged at least ...

Surgery checklists save lives, a study released Monday found. Hospitals in South Carolina that completed a voluntary, statewide program to implement the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety ...

New research suggests surgery patients overwhelmingly prefer presurgical safety checklists to be completed in front of them, contrary to what was believed by doctors. The study, published in the ...