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Checklists save lives! A major new study in the journal Annals of Surgery<\/em><\/a> shows a 22% reduction in post-surgical deaths when a simple\u00a0WHO\u00a019-item checklist<\/a>\u00a0was used. It wasn’t a true random experiment, but the clear results are still impressive. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cSafety checklists are not a piece of paper that somehow magically protect patients, but rather they are a tool to help change practice, to foster a specific type of behavior in communication, to change implicit communication to explicit in order to create a culture where speaking up is permitted and encouraged and to create an environment where information is shared between all members of the team.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Alex Haynes
\nLead author of the study.
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One of the authors told the\u00a0ScienceDaily<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a> that:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Safety checklists can significantly reduce death in surgery. But they won’t if surgical teams treat them as just ticking a box.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Atul Gawande<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Yep.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Haynes, A. B., Edmondson, L., Lipsitz, S. R., Molina, G., Neville, B. A., Singer, S. J., Moonan, A. T., Childers, A. K., Foster, R., Gibbons, L. R., Gawande, A. A., and Berry, W. R. (2017). Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative.\u00a0Annals of Surgery<\/em><\/a>, online April 8, 2017, doi: 10.1097\/SLA.0000000000002249<\/p>\n

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Checklists save lives! A major new study in the journal Annals of Surgery shows a 22% reduction in post-surgical deaths when a simple\u00a0WHO\u00a019-item checklist\u00a0was used. It wasn’t a true random experiment, but the clear results are still impressive. \u201cSafety checklists are not a piece of paper that somehow magically protect patients, but rather they are a tool to help change practice, to foster a specific type of behavior in communication, to change implicit communication to explicit in order to create a culture where speaking up is permitted and encouraged and to create an environment where information is shared between all … Continue reading Surgical checklists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,5,65,186,57],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-to-articles","tag-checklist","tag-discipline","tag-error","tag-medical-ops","tag-safety"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}