The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...
Going under the knife is a nerve-wracking experience no matter how minor the procedure. And surgical patients are justified in their unease. Studies cited by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute ...
Health IT startup QPID Health, formed at Massachusetts General, has rolled out its first clinical decision support tool for its cloud-based platform, QPID. It works on top of providers’ electronic ...
Whenever someone is scheduled for an operation, the assigned nurse is required to fill out a “pre-op checklist” to ensure that all safety and quality metrics are being adhered to. Before the patient ...
A hospital in Windsor, Ont., is changing its surgical checklist in light of at least two cases at another local hospital where women had a breast removed even though they did not have cancer. Windsor ...
A promising way to reduce harmful surgical errors, it turns out, borrows a low-tech tool long used by airline pilots and grocery shoppers: The checklist. "It's evidence-based," says Leslie Ray, a ...
Action to prevent surgeons and their teams from operating on the wrong part of a patient was launched yesterday, providing the first national system of "pre-flight checks" for all hospitals. Although ...
PITTSFORD, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - Checklist Boards Corporation, (http://www.checklistboards.com) announced their Custom designed Checklist Safety Boards ...
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...
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