(This is the second in a two-part series about a patient-driven checklist for safe hospital care. The first article discussed the rationale for such a checklist.) Many hospitals now routinely use ...
PITTSFORD, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - Checklist Boards Corporation, (http://www.checklistboards.com) announced their Custom designed Checklist Safety Boards ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Patient safety checklists are now state law, as Nevada signed the Patient Protection Checklist bill (AB 280) into legislation yesterday. More recently spearheaded by advocate Atul Gawande, MD, author ...
Checklists may be a practical and efficient way to improve patient safety in the dental office. Two safety experts explained why in the July issue of the Journal of the California Dental Association.
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 ...