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Safe Surgery Saves Lives: The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge.
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Geneva, Switzerland: WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety; June 25, 2008.
This initiative provides a surgical safety checklist and related educational and training materials to encourage international adoption of a core set of safety standards. Implementation of this World Health Organization's checklist has resulted in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality and complications across diverse international hospitals. Surgical checklists have now become one of the clearest success stories in the patient safety movement, although some have described challenges to effective implementation. Dr. Atul Gawande discussed the history of checklists as a quality and safety tool in his book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
Journal Article > Commentary
Excessive work hours of physicians in training in El Salvador: putting patients at risk.
Fernández Taylor KR. PLoS Med. 2007;4:e205.
This author describes his experience as a physician-trainee in El Salvador, outlines the consequences of fatigue in the medical environment, and provides suggestions for improvement.
Newsletter/Journal
Global Patient Safety Challenge NewsAlert.
World Health Organization.
This publication shares news related to the World Health Organization's Global Patient Safety Challenge.