Key result
The WHO surgical safety checklist is the subject of ongoing expert debate regarding whether there is sufficient evidence to definitively prove that it saves lives.
Why the study?
Does the World Health Organization's surgery checklist save lives?
Does the World Health Organization's surgery checklist save lives?
There is ongoing debate regarding the sufficiency of evidence supporting the mortality benefits of the WHO surgical safety checklist.
Studies show that the World Health Organization’s surgery checklist saves lives around the world, say Alex Haynes and Atul Gawande. But David Urbach and Justin Dimick argue that there’s not enough evidence to say for sure
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Urbach et al. (2019) studied this question. The WHO surgical safety checklist is the subject of ongoing expert debate regarding whether there is sufficient evidence to definitively prove that it saves lives.
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