Safety checklists - a tool to help change practice

"Safety checklists are not a piece of paper that magically protects patients, but a tool to help change practice" - a new study has found surgery checklists save lives. Hospitals in South Carolina that completed a voluntary, statewide program to implement the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist had a 22 percent reduction in post-surgical (Washington Post).
- Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative. Annals of Surgery. December 2017.