The World Health Organization’s surgical safety checklist may have less of a benefit at hospitals adopting the checklist independently than hospitals adopting the checklist in an intervention research ...

The likelihood of missing a critical process of care during a surgical crisis was 74 percent less likely when operating teams used checklists than when they did not, according to a study in the New ...

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 ...