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 ...
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 ...
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.
Physician groups looking to make their practices more efficient and increase their bottom lines should develop patient safety lists that address emergent events and routine activities. That's the ...
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 ...
Patient safety checklists are now state law, as Nevada signed the Patient Protection Checklist bill (AB 280) into legislation yesterday. More recently spearheaded by advocate Atul Gawande, MD, author ...
In the world of healthcare, the medical checklist has become a superstar. In essence, it seems like a simple, easy-to-use method that has been used by hospitals for functions such as preventing ...
The following content is sponsored by Select International. The task can seem monumental: Improve patient outcomes. Improve patient safety. Improve the patient experience. Accomplish all of this while ...
The latest version of the checklist was released in Sept. 2009. While the content of the 19 checklist items remains unchanged from the previous version, the wording of each checklist item has been ...