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Surgical safety checklist compliance: The clinical audit

INTRODUCTION: The surgical safety checklist consists of three components: sign-in, performed before the induction of anesthesia; time-out, performed before skin incision; and sign-out, performed immediately after skin closure or before the patient leaves the operating theatre. This study aims to ass...

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Autores principales: Gul, Fahad, Nazir, Maheen, Abbas, Khawar, Khan, Alishba Ashraf, Malick, Daniya Shahzad, Khan, Hashim, Kazmi, Syed Naqash Haider, Naseem, Arbab Osama
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Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9486577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104397
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author Gul, Fahad
Nazir, Maheen
Abbas, Khawar
Khan, Alishba Ashraf
Malick, Daniya Shahzad
Khan, Hashim
Kazmi, Syed Naqash Haider
Naseem, Arbab Osama
author_facet Gul, Fahad
Nazir, Maheen
Abbas, Khawar
Khan, Alishba Ashraf
Malick, Daniya Shahzad
Khan, Hashim
Kazmi, Syed Naqash Haider
Naseem, Arbab Osama
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description INTRODUCTION: The surgical safety checklist consists of three components: sign-in, performed before the induction of anesthesia; time-out, performed before skin incision; and sign-out, performed immediately after skin closure or before the patient leaves the operating theatre. This study aims to assess compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) and explore the barriers facing in properly implementing the surgical safety checklist in operation theatres of a tertiary care hospital. METHODOLOGY: The observational clinical audit was conducted in Surgical Unit I, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Compliance with the surgical safety checklist was observed before and after the educational intervention. After completion of the clinical audit operating theatre staff was asked about the barriers to compliance with the surgical safety checklist using an interview sheet. Mean, and standard deviation was calculated for quantitative variables, whereas frequencies and percentages were calculated for categorical variables using SPSS version 25.0. RESULTS: Compliance with all the steps of the surgical safety checklist was improved after an educational intervention, with the highest improvement in compliance (66.7%) observed with the Sign-out step “Count of sponges and needles & instruments complete?” Moreover, filling of the patient board and documentation of procedure in the patient file were also improved. Lack of awareness and training to follow the surgical safety checklist was the commonest barrier to compliance with the surgical safety checklist. CONCLUSION: Implementing the surgical safety checklist will not only upgrade the patient safety measures but also integrate teamwork skills and improve the local departmental culture.
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spelling pubmed-94865772022-09-21 Surgical safety checklist compliance: The clinical audit Gul, Fahad Nazir, Maheen Abbas, Khawar Khan, Alishba Ashraf Malick, Daniya Shahzad Khan, Hashim Kazmi, Syed Naqash Haider Naseem, Arbab Osama Ann Med Surg (Lond) Quality Improvement Study INTRODUCTION: The surgical safety checklist consists of three components: sign-in, performed before the induction of anesthesia; time-out, performed before skin incision; and sign-out, performed immediately after skin closure or before the patient leaves the operating theatre. This study aims to assess compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) and explore the barriers facing in properly implementing the surgical safety checklist in operation theatres of a tertiary care hospital. METHODOLOGY: The observational clinical audit was conducted in Surgical Unit I, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Compliance with the surgical safety checklist was observed before and after the educational intervention. After completion of the clinical audit operating theatre staff was asked about the barriers to compliance with the surgical safety checklist using an interview sheet. Mean, and standard deviation was calculated for quantitative variables, whereas frequencies and percentages were calculated for categorical variables using SPSS version 25.0. RESULTS: Compliance with all the steps of the surgical safety checklist was improved after an educational intervention, with the highest improvement in compliance (66.7%) observed with the Sign-out step “Count of sponges and needles & instruments complete?” Moreover, filling of the patient board and documentation of procedure in the patient file were also improved. Lack of awareness and training to follow the surgical safety checklist was the commonest barrier to compliance with the surgical safety checklist. CONCLUSION: Implementing the surgical safety checklist will not only upgrade the patient safety measures but also integrate teamwork skills and improve the local departmental culture. Elsevier 2022-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9486577/ /pubmed/36147088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104397 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Nazir, Maheen
Abbas, Khawar
Khan, Alishba Ashraf
Malick, Daniya Shahzad
Khan, Hashim
Kazmi, Syed Naqash Haider
Naseem, Arbab Osama
Surgical safety checklist compliance: The clinical audit
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title_full Surgical safety checklist compliance: The clinical audit
title_fullStr Surgical safety checklist compliance: The clinical audit
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title_short Surgical safety checklist compliance: The clinical audit
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9486577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104397
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