The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery

doi:10.1186/1754-9493-3-9

Patient Safety in Surgery

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Letter to the Editor

The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery

Sukhmeet S Panesar¹ , Kevin Cleary¹ , Aziz Sheikh² and Liam Donaldson³

¹National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Patient Safety Division, 4-8 Maple Street, London, W1T 5HD, UK

²Division of Community Health Sciences: GP Section, University of Edinburgh, 20 West Richmond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DX, UK

³Department of Health Richmond House 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS, UK

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Patient Safety in Surgery 2009, 3:9doi:10.1186/1754-9493-3-9


Published:	28 May 2009

Abstract

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.