The California Department of Public Health offers a free, downloadable medical waste management checklist. The checklist is designed to help healthcare providers build a medical waste management plan ...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority developed a sample preoperative checklist ... Download the preoperative checklist (pdf) for use in your facility. Note: View our database providing 150 ...

A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...

The new AORN Comprehensive Surgical Checklist includes the safety checks outlined in the ... Surgical Checklist can be downloaded in PDF as well as in a Word document so it can be tailored to ...

Dr. Peter Pronovost, whose accomplishments include inventing a patient-safety checklist that’s now used to prevent infection at health care facilities across the country, has moved into the ...

The checklist, which asked questions about prophylaxis, medication reconciliation and urinary catheter placement, was uploaded into neuroscience ICU patient charts as an automatic prompt.

Patients feel safer – and likely are safer – when they receive a surgical safety checklist and request ... Examples include: reviewing the patient's allergies before anesthesia, confirming ...

Researchers develop a checklist to improve patient safety in the prescription of antirheumatic drugs. Inappropriate prescription of an antirheumatic drug for an unsuitable patient can lead to ...

Adverse events in patients who have undergone surgery constitute a large proportion of iatrogenic illnesses. Most surgical safety interventions have focused on the operating room. Since more than ...