Letter to the Editor
The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery
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* Corresponding author: Sukhmeet S Panesar sukhmeet.panesar@imperial.ac.uk
1 National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Patient Safety Division, 4-8 Maple Street, London, W1T 5HD, UK
2 Division of Community Health Sciences: GP Section, University of Edinburgh, 20 West Richmond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DX, UK
3 Department of Health Richmond House 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS, UK
Patient Safety in Surgery 2009, 3:9 doi:10.1186/1754-9493-3-9
Published: 28 May 2009Abstract
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.