Ten years of the Surgical Safety Checklist

Br J Surg. 2018 Jul;105(8):927-929. doi: 10.1002/bjs.10907. Epub 2018 May 17.

Authors

T G Weiser^{1

2}, A B Haynes^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Safe Surgery Program, Ariadne Labs, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

Not just a tick box exercise

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Checklist / history*
History, 21st Century
Humans
Patient Safety / history*
Safety Management / history*
Surgical Procedures, Operative / standards*
World Health Organization