The ASA Newsletter for May 2014 included a sample checklist for anesthesia departments. The checklist incorporates the mnemonic “PUTS PATIENT FIRST.” The Physician Quality Reporting System also ...

Surgical checklists are most effective when all members of the surgical ... The observations found that anesthesia residents stopped their activities 75 percent of the time, compared to 88 percent for ...

preoperative checklists and anesthesia checklists were among 10 patient safety strategies hospitals are "strongly encouraged" to adopt, according to May research headed by RAND Corporation.

OR Checklist: After many months of consultation and review, ACTOC created an OR checklist for anesthesia care teams to collectively review before each case. These checklists are available to the teams ...

In many poor countries, older surgeons resist being questioned, and operations are more often emergencies, which leaves less time to review checklists ... surgery and anesthesia in poor and ...