News for Healthier Living
Program Dramatically Improves Safety of Surgery for Children
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago achieved more than a 13-fold improvement in surgical safety after implementing a series of interventions based on high reliability principles across its operating rooms. The hospital went from experiencing a serious safety event about every 2,977 surgical cases to a stretch of 39,654 cases over 585 days without a single serious safety event, according to the study published in Pediatrics.
July 1, 2026
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- Program Dramatically Improves Safety of Surgery for Children
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June 30 2026
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