Reproducing & Adapting the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
Reproduction
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist can be reproduced in its entirety without any modifications or adaptations to layout or wording. This includes the WHO emblem as it appears as an integral part of this tool.
Adaptation
Institutions and organizations are encouraged to adapt the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist to their own facility's needs subject to the requirements outlined in the document below.
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Checklist Adaptation Guide - Arabic
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Checklist Adaptation Guide - Chinese
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Checklist Adaptation Guide - English
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Guía para la adaptación de la Lista OMS
pdf, 50kb
If the checklist is modified in any way, the WHO logo should not be used. Instead, in order to acknowledge the original WHO source, the checklist should bear the language:
'Based on the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, URL http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en, © World Health Organization 2008 All rights reserved.'