Team-oriented. Communicative. Transparent. These are words that we want all patients to
use when describing their operating teams. Teams that embody these characteristics likely …

In Hong Kong, we started to adopt and use the World Health Organization Surgical Safety
Checklist in 2009. Although many of us doubt about the effectiveness of such a simple …

Team-oriented. Communicative. Transparent. These are words that we want all patients to
use when describing their operating teams. Teams that embody these characteristics likely …

Dr Solsky and colleagues have examined a large number of surgical safety checklists based
on the original World Health Organization (WHO) checklist and provided a detailed …

In 2009, when The New England Journal of Medicine published the 8-city trial of the World
Health Organization's Safe Surgery Checklist, the idea that a formal system of planning and …

Iread with great interest the article by Lingard et al1 and the accompanying critique
describing the effective use of preoperative checklists and team briefing among operating …

Group about reduction of morbidity and mortality in a global population through the use of a
surgical safety checklist. 1 In Canada, recommendations to adopt the checklist have been …

Patients safety is a fundamental component of good quality health care. Despite the
remarkable improving in knowledge in all medical fields, people continue to die for …

What is a checklist? Is it a simple safety intervention, neither costly nor lengthy in
implementation, 1 easily adopted, and applied by anyone on a perioperative team without …

The WHO safety surgical checklist has demonstrated its effectiveness in improving patient
outcomes [1]. However, universal implementation of this valuable tool in surgical practice …