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Jun 2010
Creating the Safest OR
Health care is risky business.  And while checklists, as advocated by Dr. Atul Gawande in his book The Checklist Manifesto, are a good start in reducing medical errors, they aren’t enough. The overall mortality rate in pediatric cardiac surgery nationally remains around 3 to 4 percent – even after implementing checklists. We need to do
By: Pirooz Eghtesady MD PhD | 0

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