A preprocedural checklist written collaboratively by charge nurses from Mayo Clinic’s gastrointestinal endoscopy and medical care units significantly reduced the number of canceled and rescheduled procedures and enhanced staff communication and satisfaction during a pilot study.
The Mayo Clinic team compared procedure cancellations and other factors before and after implementation of the checklist in a pilot study published in Gastroenterology Nursing (2019;42[1]:79-83). They found that of