Study: Basic checklist cut surgical deaths in half
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 17:49
in Health & Medicine
ATLANTA (AP) -- Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut. Ask the person's name to make sure you have the right patient. Count sponges to make sure you didn't leave any inside the body. Doctors worldwide who followed a checklist of steps like these cut the death rate from surgery almost in half and complications by more than a third in a large international study of how to avoid blatant operating room mistakes....
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