Why You Should Let Patients Participate in Surgical Safety Checklists

Updated on March 4, 2014

Surgical teams are more likely to use safety checklists when patients know about them and ask those teams to be sure to follow them, say researchers at Tulane University Hospital and Clinic in New Orleans.

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