Implementing the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist: a model for future perioperative initiatives.

Kristin Alt Styer; Stanley W. Ashley; Ilona Schmidt; Elaine M. Zive; Sunil Eappen

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Implementing the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist: a model for future perioperative initiatives.

December 7, 2011

Styer KA, Ashley SW, Schmidt I, et al. AORN J. 2011;94(6):590-8.

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This commentary describes how one hospital implemented the WHO surgical safety checklist in a 2-week plan-do-study-act trial and identified areas for improvement.

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