Patient Education
Safety Guides
Honest, plain-language guides to how surgical safety is managed in a hospital. Each explains what the system is, what it can and cannot prevent, and the questions worth asking before you agree to a procedure. These pages describe systems; they do not claim any particular certification, inspection result or rate.
All Guides
9 guides to quality, credentialing and surgical safety
- How Surgical Safety Is Managed: The Checklist ApproachSurgical Safety
- Verifying Surgeon Credentials and Scope of PracticeCredentialing
- Infection Prevention and Control in the Operating TheatreInfection Control
- Implant and Device Traceability: The Record That Follows YouTraceability
- Complication Review and Audit: How a Department Changes PracticeAudit
- Reporting and Investigating Adverse Events: What to ExpectAdverse Events
- Medication Safety: How Prescribing, Dispensing and Administration Are CheckedMedication Safety
- Equipment Maintenance, Calibration and Device SafetyDevice Safety
- What Patients Can Ask About Safety: A Practical ListPatient Questions
Ask how safety is managed before you commit
We would rather answer a difficult question now than explain a complication later. Tell us the procedure you are considering and we will describe how it is credentialed, how the theatre is run, what is recorded, and what the department does when something does not go as planned — including the honest limits of all of it.