Sentences with phrase «surgical safety checklist»

Since complications may lengthen a patient's period of hospitalization, increase morbidity and mortality, as well as increase costs, the implementation of a surgical safety checklist is a viable intervention that may reduce these potential outcomes in small animal practices.

«Our review represents the first comprehensive analysis of the effect of using surgical safety checklists on major postoperative complications,» said Brigid Gillespie, Ph.D., R.N., National Health & Medical Research Council and Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

While only 35 percent of informed patients had heard of surgical safety checklists, all said the SSC made them feel more comfortable going into their surgeries.

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Dr. Atul Gawande, Senior Study Author, Surgeon, and Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, said the research proves that simple, carefully crafted, evidence - based surgical checklists can improve patient safety during unexpected crisis events.

According to researchers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), physicians and other medical professionals who use standard written safety checklists when responding to surgical crises have better outcomes than those who do not.