A dermatology surgical safety checklist: an objective resident performance tool

The WHO surgical safety checklist: an innovative or an irrelevant tool?

Effective surgical safety checklist implementation.

BACKGROUND Research suggests that surgical safety checklists can reduce mortality and other postoperative complications. The real world impact of surgical safety checklists on patient outcomes, however, depends on the effectiveness of hospitals' implementation processes. STUDY DESIGN We studied implementation processes in 5 Washington State hospitals by conducting semistructured interviews wi...

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

Modeling Surgical Resident Performance

The goals of this work were to evaluate the methods used for assessing surgical residents and to model surgical resident performance. Currently, residents are evaluated by the attending surgeons using a one-page paper evaluation form after each rotation in a particular department. These subjective questionnaires require the evaluators to rate residents in competency areas that are thought to de...

Effect of Improvement of Surgical Safety Checklist on Surgical Technologists’s Attitude and Satisfaction

Introduction: One of the primary duties that circulating and scrub nurses fulfill is to record instruments and procedures adopted during a surgical operation. The present research was performed to explore operating room personnel’s perspectives on both the existing and improved checklist the one that was produced on the basis of evidence and guidelines. Methods and Materials: This non-randomi...