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While appropriate use of checklists helps improve surgical quality and patient safety, they must be used in conjunction with proper training and expectations, according to a newsletter from LifeWings.

Using strategy, surgery deaths drop 18 percent on average over 3 years, according to Veterans Affairs study. CHICAGO — Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the ...

Checklists are essential to tackling a project thoroughly and completely. They ensure there is process cohesion between parties who may be involved in completing them and, most importantly, that ...

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Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the right surgery tools? Answering such basic questions from surgery checklists — and involving everyone as a team, even ...