Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: 10 Checklists to Improve Patient Safety

Ten free checklists developed by Cynosure Health to help healthcare organizations improve patient safety are available from the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Checklist for Checklist Development

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 ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Leadership Checklist for Patient Safety Organization Participation

The American Medical Association’s Center for Patient Safety offers a free leadership checklist for participation in a patient safety organization. The checklist is designed to help healthcare leaders ...
HealthLeaders Media

Use Medical Checklists as Tools, Not Cure-Alls, for Patient Safety Problems

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 ...
Fierce Healthcare

Can mandatory checklists actually improve patient safety?

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 ...
Fierce Healthcare

Patient safety checklists mandated by state law

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 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: Patient-Controlled Analgesia Checklist

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety offers complimentary resources to advance patient health and safety initiatives and improve quality of acre. The Patient-Controlled Analgesia ...
HealthLeaders Media

MGMA: Patient Safety Checklists Cut Costs at Physician Practices

A nurse would follow the steps from memory, but stop at a certain point to review the checklist to confirm that everything that needs to happen is happening. Read-do is a typical checklist. The order ...
Science Daily

Standard written checklists can improve patient safety during surgical crises

When hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond to a medical crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75 percent less likely to miss a critical clinical step. When ...
TCTMD

Amid Resistance, Support Growing for Safety Checklists in the Cath Lab

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...
The Business Journals

UnitedHealthcare names prominent patient-safety expert chief medical officer

Dr. Peter Pronovost, whose accomplishments include inventing a patient-safety checklist that’s now used to prevent infection at health care facilities across the country, has moved into the chief ...
Sun Sentinel

Top patient safety expert, innovator of checklists, departs Johns Hopkins

Dr. Peter Pronovost, one of the nation’s top patient safety experts and advocates, is leaving Johns Hopkins Health System for a job at insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, he announced Thursday on ...