Surgery: Can checklists improve surgical outcomes?

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 245-246

  Birkmeyer, John D ^a   Miller, David C ^b  

^a Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKLIST; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SAFETY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHECKLIST; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77449117223     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2009.57     Document Type: Short Survey

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