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Posts Tagged ‘Surgical Safety Checklist’

iPhone App ‘Safe OR’ Incorporates Research Shown to Reduce Death After Surgery by >40%

A recent landmark article published online in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that using a simple 19-step safety checklist (the Surgical Safety Checklist) in the operating room can significantly reduce post-operative complications.  Specifically, death after surgery was reduced by more than 40%.   Prompted by this scholarly article, QxMD Software has adapted [...]