Surgical Safety
Around the world, complications from surgery result in more than half a million deaths every year. Research shows that implementing safety checklists can significantly reduce this mortality rate. The World Health Organization (WHO) has initiated one of these safety checklist campaigns, to improve compliance with standards and reduce morbidity and mortality.
Prevent Surgical Site Infections: Getting Started Kit 
Safer Healthcare Now! (SHN), 2010. This toolkit helps healthcare teams work together to improve the health of surgical patients. 
Safe Surgery Saves Lives 
World Health Organization (WHO), 2009. The Surgical Safety Checklist is a key part of WHO’s patient safety campaign. This one-page checklist is a simple, practical tool for healthcare teams to use in their operating rooms.
Safe Surgery Saves Lives Checklist Action Series
Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), 2010. Archived past surgical safety learning events guided by faculty.
Surgical Safety Checklist – Canadian Version
Safer Healthcare Now! (SHN), 2009. SHN’s checklist is also available in a scorecard version, so that organizations can measure their compliance.
Surgical Safety Checklist — How: The How-To Guide
Canadian Patient Safety Institute, 2009. This concise how-to guide gives an overview of the steps that providers need to take to implement a checklist in their operating rooms.
Surgical Safety Checklist Implementation Toolkit
Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), 2010. The OHA’s toolkit provides Ontario hospitals with standardized checklists to use in their operating rooms, as well as strategies to improve healthcare teams’ communication and teamwork.
