Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: Checklist for Analgesia Pump Safety

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 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: 10 Checklists to Improve Patient Safety

Ten free checklists developed by Cynosure Health to help healthcare organizations improve patient safety are available from the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Checklist for Checklist Development

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to help healthcare providers and organizations build a sustainable and effective patient safety checklist. The checklist for checklists was ...
DrBicuspid

Want to improve patient safety? Make a checklist

Checklists may be a practical and efficient way to improve patient safety in the dental office. Two safety experts explained why in the July issue of the Journal of the California Dental Association.
HealthLeaders Media

Combine Surgery Checklists to Boost Patient Safety and Clinical Outcomes

Combining the World Health Organization's operating room checklist with a preoperative and postoperative checklist benefits patients, research indicates. Joint use of the World Health Organization ...
HealthLeaders Media

Use Medical Checklists as Tools, Not Cure-Alls, for Patient Safety Problems

Recent events have put the simple medical checklist in the spotlight. For instance, the Department of Health and Human Services last summer highlighted work among Michigan hospital ICUs to sharply ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Ambulatory Surgery Pre- & Post-Operative Checklists

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...
Fierce Healthcare

AORN Supports Patient Safety and Accreditation with Release of Comprehensive Surgical Checklist

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a comprehensive surgical checklist to help reduce the number of wrong-site surgeries and other ...
TCTMD

Amid Resistance, Support Growing for Safety Checklists in the Cath Lab

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...
The Business Journals

UnitedHealthcare names prominent patient-safety expert chief medical officer

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 chief ...
Fierce Healthcare

Surgical safety checklists may not improve patient outcomes after all

Surgical safety checklists didn't improve operative mortality, readmission rates and emergency department visits within 30 days after discharge at Canadian hospitals, according to a study published in ...