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 ...

PITTSFORD, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - Checklist Boards Corporation, (http://www.checklistboards.com) announced their Custom designed Checklist Safety Boards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are distressing for patients and healthcare facilities alike. SSIs result in longer hospital stays and increased healthcare costs. Furthermore, they can trigger ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One operation went awry after an experienced brain surgeon insisted to a nurse he knew what side of the head to operate on -- but got it wrong. Another time, a doctor-in-training ...

PROVIDENCE — One operation went awry after an experienced brain surgeon insisted to a nurse he knew what side of the head to operate on — but got it wrong. Another time, a doctor-in-training cut into ...

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 ...