Leak in Surgical Safety Checklist?

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.

Surgical safety checklist in obstetrics and gynaecology.

OBJECTIVE To provide guidance on the implementation of a surgical safety checklist in the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology. OUTCOMES OUTCOMES evaluated include the impact of the surgical safety checklist on surgical morbidity and mortality. EVIDENCE Medline databases were searched for articles on subjects related to "surgical safety checklist" published in English from January 2001 to...

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...

Achieving flying colours in surgical safety: audit of World Health Organization 'Surgical Safety Checklist' compliance.

OBJECTIVE The World Health Organization 'Surgical Safety Checklist' has been adopted by UK surgical units following National Patient Safety Agency guidance. Our aim was to assess compliance with our local version of this Checklist. METHODS Otolaryngology trainee doctors prospectively assessed compliance with the local Checklist over a six-week period. A staff educational intervention was impl...