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Letters Surgical checklists

Surgical safety checklist: successful in Scotland

BMJ 2019; 365 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l4288 (Published 21 June 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;365:l4288
  1. Philippa Whitford, breast surgeon and MP for Central Ayrshire
  1. Ayrshire
  1. hansandphil{at}icloud.com

I agree with McLachlan that the World Health Organization’s surgical safety checklist can only improve outcomes for surgical patients when used systematically.1 So I was surprised and disappointed that …

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