When you finish a project, do you toss it over the fence with a spirited "good riddance," or do you diligently ensure it meets your quality bar before you send it on its way with a dusting of angel ...

When hospital operating room staff follow a written safety checklist to respond to a medical crisis during surgery, they are nearly 75 percent less likely to miss a critical clinical step. When ...

In a Dec. 6 webinar hosted by Becker’s Healthcare, Linda Lansing, senior vice president of clinical services, and Kelly Bemis, director of clinical services at Surgical Care Affiliates, discussed ...

Nurses will have to follow a standard list of clinical checks for all NHS hospital emergency patients, under plans being developed by the Department of Health. The DH is working with the Royal College ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

A good, compliant infection control program carefully documents when staff members of the ASC review and gain an understanding of the many components of the program. One such component is the rules ...

I’ve always been a fan of checklists, and checklists are kind of what people think of when they think of systematizing their businesses. Checklists, or in this case, step-by-step standard operating ...

The final rule to align OSHA’s HazCom Standard with GHS Rev 7 is expected this year. Stakeholders throughout the chemical supply chain will need to understand how the changes will affect them. This ...

Checklists take us step by step through a task or procedure and help ensure we don’t miss something. They’re straightforward and eliminate error. So why don’t ...

Almost every mom keeps lists: the grocery list, the daily to do list, the people to call list, the just about anything and everything in our lives list. A brain can only hold so much information, and ...