The goal of the WHO Patient Safety Safe Surgery Saves Lives Challenge is to improve the safety of surgical care around the world by defining a core set of safety standards that can be applied in all countries and settings. Working groups of international experts were created to review the literature and the experiences of clinicians around the world and to achieve consensus on safety practice in four topic areas: teamwork, anaesthesia, prevention of surgical site infection and measurement of surgical services.
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