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WHO unveils safety checklist for surgery
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 27, 2008
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week unveiled a surgery safety checklist to reduce the number of mistakes that disable and kill millions of people each year, according to Reuters.
About 7 million patients suffer complications following surgery, half of which are likely preventable, according to WHO estimates.
"Although there have been major improvements over the last few decades, the quality and safety of surgical care has been dismayingly variable in every part of the world," Harvard University professor and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, one of the developers of the WHO's surgical safety checklist, told Reuters.
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