In 2008, the WHO released a very general safety checklist to help make surgery safer. The WHO checklist has been tried in multiple hospitals, and according to discussion in the New England Journal of Medicine, "The rate of death was 1.5% before the checklist was introduced and declined to 0.8% afterward... Inpatient complications occurred in 11.0% of patients at baseline and in 7.0% after introduction of the checklist." A recent update on the WHO checklist is available on-line.
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