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America's Best Hospitals Way Ahead of World Health Organization on Surgical Checklist Use
Date:1/16/2009

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent hoopla surrounding published research citing the patient safety benefits of surgery checklists would suggest medical experts have stumbled onto a startling new tactic to prevent medical error. In reality, research from the World Health Organization published Tuesday, January 13, 2009, in The New England Journal of Medicine is old news for many of the safest U.S. hospitals. The NEJM article describes how doctors using a simple checklist before surgery were able to reduce post-surgical deaths by more 36%.

Standout medical institutions like Vanderbilt, Rush, UCLA and Johns Hopkins have been successfully implementing safety tools like checklists for their physicians and nurses for years. Faced with a rising tide of medical errors, leading edge hospitals began turning to commercial aviation safety experts as far back as 1999 for advice on how to make their operations safer. Steve Harden, a commercial airline Captain and former Topgun pilot who has helped over 90 U.S. healthcare organizations adopt aviation-based safety tools says, "It's not rocket science. Rigid use of safety checklists is one of the key reasons commercial aviation travel is the safest transportation system in the world. It makes perfect sense that checklists would work for potentially dangerous activities like surgery." Captain Harden is president of LifeWings Partners -- the nation's largest provider of aviation-based safety systems for hospitals. "For nine years we've been helping hospitals implement the same teamwork training, checklists, safety tools, and system processes used by the airlines. The best hospitals figured out long ago what the WHO is just now publishing -- checklists save lives."

Hospital executives say using checklists have more benefits than just safety. Dr. Stanley W. Marks, Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer for six hospit
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