Improving the Use of a Surgical Safety Checklist

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

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...

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...

Prevention of surgical malpractice claims by use of a surgical safety checklist.

OBJECTIVE To assess what proportion of surgical malpractice claims might be prevented by the use of a surgical safety checklist. BACKGROUND Surgical disciplines are overrepresented in the distribution of adverse events. The recently described multidisciplinary SURgical PAtient Safety System (SURPASS) checklist covers the entire surgical pathway from admission to discharge and is being validat...

degree of observance of the who surgical safety checklist

background: one of the most important goals of health care organizations is measuring and improving the quality of health care and reduction of adverse events. objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of observance of the who surgical safety checklist at two hospitals in tehran. materials and methods: during this analytic cross-sectional study the degree of observance and th...