Tag Archives: safety and quality in healthcare

Some critical questions for patient safety

March 30, 2009 – 11:56 am

Dr Patrick Bolton, Vice President, Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, has some further interesting points to make on surgical safety:
“The recent study which showed that the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist reduced postoperative complications by an average of 36% and resulted in a fall in the total in-hospital death rate from 1.5% to 0.8% takes one [...]

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Chris Baggoley on surgical safety

March 26, 2009 – 6:45 pm

Professor Chris Baggoley, Chief Executive, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, has sent in the following comment re the recent post on whether Australian hospitals should be implementing the WHO surgical safety checklist to reduce deaths and complications associated with surgery:
“The Commission is very keen to work with (and has spoken to) the [...]

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