Study: Checklists Reduce Safety Risks During Surgical Crises

The likelihood of missing a critical process of care during a surgical crisis was 74 percent less likely when operating teams used checklists than when they did not, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study was led by Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and author of The Checklist Manifesto, and was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Click here to read the full story on checklists in surgical crises in Becker's ASC Review.

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