Surgical checklists: Do they improve patient safety?

Surgical safety checklists: do they improve outcomes?

The concept of using a checklist in surgical and anaesthetic practice was energized by publication of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in 2008. It was believed that by routinely checking common safety issues, and by better team communication and dynamics, perioperative morbidity and mortality could be improved. The magnitude of improvement demonstrated by the WHO pilot studies was surprising. ...

Effectiveness of Surgical Safety Checklists in Improving Patient Safety.

Wrong-site surgery is all too common. Despite more than a decade of campaigns by major organizations to prevent these events, there are still reports of such mistakes. This article reviews the recent literature on surgical safety checklists and other tools designed to prevent wrong-site surgery and improve patient safety in the operating room. Emphasis is placed on how well institutions comply ...

Chapter 23. Pre-Anesthesia Checklists To Improve Patient Safety

No matter how rote the task or how vigilant the anesthesiologist, “slips” and other errors represent expected aspects of human performance. Evaluation and subsequent improvement of standard checkout procedures promises to increase patient safety in the perioperative period by removing more of the “human factors” so often implicated in anesthesia adverse events. The use of pre-flight checklists ...

Surgical safety checklists: a review.

BACKGROUND Surgical checklists are designed to improve patient outcomes following surgery. While such checklists have been widely implemented worldwide, few studies examine surgical checklists within an Australian context. For this purpose, we have performed a literature review using data from OECD member nations to determine the effectiveness of surgical checklists in improving patient outcome...

Do automated dispensing machines improve patient safety?