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The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery
In this article, we welcome the adoption of the WHO surgical checklist to prevent errors in surgical practice. We highlight the scale of the problem and discuss the adoption of this tool in the UK.
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BioMed Central
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2693116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-3-9 |
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| author | Panesar, Sukhmeet S Cleary, Kevin Sheikh, Aziz Donaldson, Liam |
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| description | In this article, we welcome the adoption of the WHO surgical checklist to prevent errors in surgical practice. We highlight the scale of the problem and discuss the adoption of this tool in the UK. |
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| spelling | pubmed-26931162009-06-08 The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery Panesar, Sukhmeet S Cleary, Kevin Sheikh, Aziz Donaldson, Liam Patient Saf Surg Letter to the Editor In this article, we welcome the adoption of the WHO surgical checklist to prevent errors in surgical practice. We highlight the scale of the problem and discuss the adoption of this tool in the UK. BioMed Central 2009-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2693116/ /pubmed/19476643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-3-9 Text en Copyright © 2009 Panesar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Panesar, Sukhmeet S Cleary, Kevin Sheikh, Aziz Donaldson, Liam The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery |
| title | The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery |
| title_full | The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery |
| title_fullStr | The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery |
| title_full_unstemmed | The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery |
| title_short | The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery |
| title_sort | who checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery |
| topic | Letter to the Editor |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2693116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-3-9 |
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