Checklists may be a practical and efficient way to improve patient safety in the dental office. Two safety experts explained why in the July issue of the Journal of the California Dental Association.

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 ...

Erik Steele, DO, chief medical officer of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, advocates for the use of a patient-driven checklist for safe hospital care in a two-part series in the Bangor Daily News.

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 ...

Checklists have been touted as a method of elevating quality of care in hospitals for years. Yet, the medical community does not fully embrace them. Even Atul Gawande, MD, who literally wrote a ...

A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...

The National Patient Safety Foundation offers a free checklist that encourages patients to take an active role in their healthcare. The checklist includes actions that patients can take to partner ...

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 ...

When someone hears the name Peter Pronovost, they think of checklists. Specifically, they think of the patient safety checklist he launched at Johns Hopkins Hospital after the tragic death of a young ...

As anyone who has been a patient or a visitor at a hospital knows, they're often confusing, chaotic places. By the time you learn the routines and the rules, with any luck you're recovered and on your ...