Surgical Safety Checklist: An essential tool to increase patient safety

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.

Patient safety checklist: keys to successful implementation.

Development of an adhesive surgical ward round checklist: a technique to improve patient safety.

Checklists have been shown to improve patient outcomes. Checklist use is seen in the pre-operative to post-operative phases of the patient pathway. An adhesive checklist was developed for ward rounds due to the positive impact it could have on improving patient safety. Over an eight day period data were collected from five consultant-led teams that were randomly selected from the surgical depar...

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