Surgical checklist cuts deaths by 40%, study reveals - The Guardian 15th Janua... - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Jan 09
  

  Kieran Lamb

  Surgeons in every hospital in the country will be required to run through a brief checklist before they operate, which will include establishing the identity of the patient and the operation they need, after a trial showed the simple procedure could cut deaths by 40%.
  
  Eminent surgeons expressed shock and surprise after the use of a two-minute checklist to ensure basic procedures had been done in eight hospitals in rich and poor countries around the world, including St Mary's in Paddington, London, revealed the scale of human error. Many surgeons were strongly opposed to using the list, which has to be read aloud to the team in the operating theatre, until they realised how much safer it made operations. Complications were cut by a third.

  Health News UHN Guardian Surgery and Safety

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