DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a comprehensive surgical checklist to help reduce the number of wrong-site surgeries and other ...

The AORN Comprehensive Surgical Checklist was created in 2010 by representatives from AORN and The Joint Commission and contributors to the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist.

How effective is a comprehensive surgical safety checklist in reducing adverse postoperative events? The authors conducted a randomized before-and-after trial in 6 Dutch hospitals where the standards ...

Chicago (December 5, 2012): As the nation grapples with surging health care costs, researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center ...

Darrell McDonald, being prepped for surgery last week at the University of Washington Medical Center, didn’t seem surprised to learn that his surgical team would be using a checklist to make sure they ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surgical checklists not only save lives by preventing medical errors, they could also make a big dent in medical malpractice claims, Dutch researchers say. Scouring data ...

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care offers complimentary resources to help ambulatory care centers improve patient safety and quality of care. Ambulatory Surgery and ...

Any lingering doubts about the positive effects of comprehensive surgical checklist intervention should vanish following the release of a study conducted in the Netherlands and published in the New ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Surgical checklists not only save lives by preventing medical errors, they could also make a big dent in medical malpractice claims, according to a study in the Netherlands.

The World Health Organization has issued the following Surgical Safety Checklist, revised in Jan. 2009. This checklist is not intended to be comprehensive. Additions and modifications to fit local ...

A new study reports that surgical site infections, blood clots, and urinary tract infections are all measurably reduced when surgical teams use two easily accessible, cost-effective tools. As the ...