Patient Safety First, a United Kingdom-based campaign led by The National Patient Safety Agency, offers a free, downloadable surgical safety checklist designed just for administrative leaders. The two ...

The checklist for checklists was developed by Atul Gawande, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health Dissemination Team, and Dan Boorman of Boeing. The checklist ...

Purpose: To provide a checklist for the required actions that need to be taken following an event. Who should use this tool? The Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) Response Team or designee ...

Background Despite being implemented for over a decade, literature describing how the surgical safety checklist (SSC) is completed by operating room (OR) teams and how this relates to its ...

The problems of replicating the effects of patient-safety checklist trials in routine practice could be mitigated by adapting checklists for individual hospital environments and teams (see Nature ...