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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
HealthLeaders Media

MGMA: Patient Safety Checklists Cut Costs at Physician Practices

A nurse would follow the steps from memory, but stop at a certain point to review the checklist to confirm that everything that needs to happen is happening. Read-do is a typical checklist. The order ...
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 ...
Fierce Healthcare

Brief huddle, checklists improve patient safety at South Florida healthcare system

Pilots and flight crews have long relied on the use of checklists and brief huddles to prevent errors and the concept has made its way to healthcare, particularly in operating rooms. But the patient ...
Science Daily

Standard written checklists can improve patient safety during surgical crises

When hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond to a medical crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75 percent less likely to miss a critical clinical step. When ...
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 ...
Healthcare Dive

Surgical safety checklists may not boost patient outcomes

Surgical safety checklists didn't improve operative mortality, readmission rates or emergency department visits within 30 days after discharge at Canadian hospitals, according to a new study appearing ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Patient-Controlled Analgesia Pump Safety Checklist

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety offers a free checklist to prevent errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps that harm patients. 1. A patient can potentially receive too ...