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      A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population.

      The New England journal of medicine

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          Surgery has become an integral part of global health care, with an estimated 234 million operations performed yearly. Surgical complications are common and often preventable. We hypothesized that a program to implement a 19-item surgical safety checklist designed to improve team communication and consistency of care would reduce complications and deaths associated with surgery.

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          10.1056/NEJMsa0810119

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