A checklist can help eliminate mistakes. Seems like common sense, and everyone's aware that airplane pilots have been using pre-flight checklists for years. In hindsight, it's amazing, but surgeons have not been using pre-op checklists routinely.
But WHO (the World Health Organization) recently announced that using a checklist helps make surgery safer (New checklist to help make surgery safer). They report that "preliminary results from a thousand patients in eight pilot sites worldwide...
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