GENEVA (Reuters) - Mark the surgical site. Ask about allergies. Count the sponges. Count the needles. Such simple reminders could prevent mistakes that endanger, disable and kill millions of people ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A simple checklist helps surgical teams avoid mistakes and cuts deaths by more than half during urgent surgery, a new study shows. The checklist tested in the new study was ...

SCOAP (Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program), a program of the Foundation for Health Care Quality, provides a free, downloadable surgical checklist for ambulatory surgery. The one-page ...

Surgery might be less risky for patients if they have their surgical team follow a safety checklist, according to new research. The study looked at the use of the World Health Organization's surgical ...

Toronto, Ontario - An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, ...

Background. Previous research suggests that the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist time-out reduces communication failures and medical complications and supports development of better ...

Researchers found the degree of compliance to the World Health Organization’s surgical checklist can affect in-hospital 30-day mortality, according to a study published in the Annals of Surgery. For ...

Surgical checklists are most effective when all members of the surgical team are required to identify themselves and participate in the checklist process, according to a study from researchers at ...

Using an exhaustive hospital checklist prevents errors and cuts the risk of death nearly in half for patients who come in for surgery, researchers reported on Wednesday. The system also reduced the ...

Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person's name to make sure you have the right patient. Count sponges to make sure you didn't leave any ...

Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for The New Yorker when he's not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a ...