Do surgical checklists improve clinical outcomes and patient safety in surgical patients?
Surgical checklists are a promising strategy for addressing surgical patient safety, though further studies are needed to quantify their impact on clinical outcomes.
Surgical checklists represent a relatively simple and promising strategy for addressing surgical patient safety worldwide. Further studies are needed to evaluate to what degree checklists improve clinical outcomes and whether improvements may be more pronounced in particular settings.
Treadwell et al. (Tue,) studied this question.