The Doctor’s Advocate | First Quarter 2024
Foundation News
Spotlight on Foundation Grants: OR Crisis Checklists
In 2022, The Doctors Company Foundation sponsored a project by Ariadne Labs (a joint center for health systems innovation at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham & Women’s Hospital) to update and expand its OR Crisis Checklists (ORCCs).
Originally created in 2011, the ORCCs improve clinicians’ ability to rescue patients from complications and minimize harm. With this update, the project team accomplished the key objective of developing a second generation OR checklist compendium with substantially increased content and functionality. The checklists are now available in online and printable versions. The online version includes an editing tool that allows users to modify the material to conform to local resources, practices, and standards.
Learn more about the Foundation’s work to fund patient safety research, education, and training.
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