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Harvard School of Public Health.

This Web site provides resources for the Safe Surgery initiative to implement the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist in every US hospital by 2015.
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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Doctor uses 'pre-flight' checklist.
Bernhard B. The Orange County Register. April 19, 2006.
STUDY
A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population.
Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, et al; for the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:491-499.
COMMENTARY
The competent surgeon: individual accountability in the era of "systems" failure.
Whittemore AD. Ann Surg. 2009;250:357-362.
BOOK/REPORT
Back to Basics.
Gima Z, Gosselar P, Levine A, Lincoln T, Ramirez A. Washington, DC: Public Citizen; August 6, 2009.
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