Cargando…

How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has demonstrated beneficial impacts on a range of patient- and team outcomes, though variation in SSC implementation and staffʼs perception of it remain challenging. Precisely how frontline personnel integrate the SSC wi...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wæhle, Hilde Valen, Haugen, Arvid Steinar, Wiig, Siri, Søfteland, Eirik, Sevdalis, Nick, Harthug, Stig
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7017532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32050960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-4965-5
_version_ 1783497214432116736
author Wæhle, Hilde Valen
Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Wiig, Siri
Søfteland, Eirik
Sevdalis, Nick
Harthug, Stig
author_facet Wæhle, Hilde Valen
Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Wiig, Siri
Søfteland, Eirik
Sevdalis, Nick
Harthug, Stig
author_sort Wæhle, Hilde Valen
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has demonstrated beneficial impacts on a range of patient- and team outcomes, though variation in SSC implementation and staffʼs perception of it remain challenging. Precisely how frontline personnel integrate the SSC with pre-existing perioperative clinical risk management remains underexplored – yet likely an impactful factor on how SSC is being used and its potential to improve clinical safety. This study aimed to explore how members of the multidisciplinary perioperative team integrate the SSC within their risk management strategies. METHODS: An ethnographic case study including observations (40 h) in operating theatres and in-depth interviews of 17 perioperative team members was carried out at two hospitals in 2016. Data were analysed using content analysis. RESULTS: We identified three themes reflecting the integration of the SSC in daily surgical practice: 1) Perceived usefullness; implying an intuitive advantage assessment of the SSCʼs practical utility in relation to relevant work; 2) Modification of implementation; reflecting performance variability of SSC on confirmation of items due to precence of team members; barriers of performance; and definition of SSC as performance indicator, and 3) Communication outside of the checklist; including formal- and informal micro-team formations where detailed, specific risk communication unfolded. CONCLUSION: When the SSC is not integrated within existing risk management strategies, but perceived as an “add on”, its fidelity is compromised, hence limiting its potential clinical effectiveness. Implementation strategies for the SSC should thus integrate it as a risk-management tool and include it as part of risk-management education and training. This can improve team learning around risk comunication, foster mutual understanding of safety perspectives and enhance SSC implementation.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7017532
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2020
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-70175322020-02-20 How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties Wæhle, Hilde Valen Haugen, Arvid Steinar Wiig, Siri Søfteland, Eirik Sevdalis, Nick Harthug, Stig BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has demonstrated beneficial impacts on a range of patient- and team outcomes, though variation in SSC implementation and staffʼs perception of it remain challenging. Precisely how frontline personnel integrate the SSC with pre-existing perioperative clinical risk management remains underexplored – yet likely an impactful factor on how SSC is being used and its potential to improve clinical safety. This study aimed to explore how members of the multidisciplinary perioperative team integrate the SSC within their risk management strategies. METHODS: An ethnographic case study including observations (40 h) in operating theatres and in-depth interviews of 17 perioperative team members was carried out at two hospitals in 2016. Data were analysed using content analysis. RESULTS: We identified three themes reflecting the integration of the SSC in daily surgical practice: 1) Perceived usefullness; implying an intuitive advantage assessment of the SSCʼs practical utility in relation to relevant work; 2) Modification of implementation; reflecting performance variability of SSC on confirmation of items due to precence of team members; barriers of performance; and definition of SSC as performance indicator, and 3) Communication outside of the checklist; including formal- and informal micro-team formations where detailed, specific risk communication unfolded. CONCLUSION: When the SSC is not integrated within existing risk management strategies, but perceived as an “add on”, its fidelity is compromised, hence limiting its potential clinical effectiveness. Implementation strategies for the SSC should thus integrate it as a risk-management tool and include it as part of risk-management education and training. This can improve team learning around risk comunication, foster mutual understanding of safety perspectives and enhance SSC implementation. BioMed Central 2020-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7017532/ /pubmed/32050960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-4965-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Research Article
Wæhle, Hilde Valen
Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Wiig, Siri
Søfteland, Eirik
Sevdalis, Nick
Harthug, Stig
How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties
title How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties
title_full How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties
title_fullStr How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties
title_full_unstemmed How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties
title_short How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties
title_sort how does the who surgical safety checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? an ethnographic study across surgical specialties
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7017532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32050960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-4965-5
work_keys_str_mv AT wæhlehildevalen howdoesthewhosurgicalsafetychecklistfitwithexistingperioperativeriskmanagementstrategiesanethnographicstudyacrosssurgicalspecialties
AT haugenarvidsteinar howdoesthewhosurgicalsafetychecklistfitwithexistingperioperativeriskmanagementstrategiesanethnographicstudyacrosssurgicalspecialties
AT wiigsiri howdoesthewhosurgicalsafetychecklistfitwithexistingperioperativeriskmanagementstrategiesanethnographicstudyacrosssurgicalspecialties
AT søftelandeirik howdoesthewhosurgicalsafetychecklistfitwithexistingperioperativeriskmanagementstrategiesanethnographicstudyacrosssurgicalspecialties
AT sevdalisnick howdoesthewhosurgicalsafetychecklistfitwithexistingperioperativeriskmanagementstrategiesanethnographicstudyacrosssurgicalspecialties
AT harthugstig howdoesthewhosurgicalsafetychecklistfitwithexistingperioperativeriskmanagementstrategiesanethnographicstudyacrosssurgicalspecialties