Detailed Checklist in the OR Improves Safety

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Wed, 01/14/2009 - 15:00

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- When surgical teams completed a one-page procedural checklist in the operating room, deaths and complication rates were markedly reduced, researchers here found in an international study.


 

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