Every hospital in the state has committed to putting a surgical checklist into use in its operating rooms. To support this effort, the partnership — Safe Surgery 2015: South Carolina — provides ...

SCOAP (Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program), a program of the Foundation for Health Care Quality, provides a free, downloadable surgical checklist for ambulatory surgery. The one-page ...

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The surgical safety checklist is a structured, three-phase protocol designed to enhance communication, standardise perioperative processes and reduce avoidable harm in the operating theatre.

(Reuters) - A surgical checklist, similar to what pilots use before every flight, can lower patient death rates -- though the drop was smaller than past research has found, a Netherlands study said.