Articles: checklist.
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In February 2010, the UK National Patient Safety Agency set a mandate that the World Health Organisation's Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) should be completed for every surgical patient within the NHS in a bid to improve surgical safety. However since its introduction, there have been issues with checklist compliance, staff engagement and surgical serious incidents continue. ⋯ The intervention seems to improve rate of checklist completion, particularly signout. It also brought more consistency on the questions read out during checklist administration. It doesn't necessarily ensure all key staff are present neither does it significantly improve staff engagement in the process.
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Veterinary surgery : VS · Jul 2016
Reduction of Surgical Complications in Dogs and Cats by the Use of a Surgical Safety Checklist.
To examine whether the use of a surgical safety checklist (SSC) could reduce the incidence of complications after small animal surgery. ⋯ The frequency and severity of postoperative complications was significantly decreased after introduction of a surgical checklist. All veterinary hospitals should consider using a surgical checklist. Compliance with implementation of the checklist is important for success.
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Observational Study
Using a Post-Intubation Checklist and Time Out to Expedite Mechanical Ventilation Monitoring: Observational Study of a Quality Improvement Intervention.
Delayed mechanical ventilation monitoring may impede recognition of life-threatening acidemia. Coordination of multidisciplinary processes can be improved by using a checklist and time-out procedure. The study objective was to evaluate process-related outcomes after implementation of a post-intubation checklist and time out. ⋯ A post-intubation checklist and time out improved the timeliness of mechanical ventilation monitoring through more rapid assessment of arterial blood gases. Implementing this peri-intubation procedure may reduce the risks associated with transitioning to full mechanical ventilatory support. Optimal implementation necessitates strategies to surmount organizational and behavioral barriers to change.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended greater attention to patient safety, particularly regarding preventable adverse events. The Safe Surgery Saves Lives (CSSV) program was released recommending the application of a surgical checklist for items on the safety of procedures. The checklist implementation reduced the hospital mortality rate in the first 30 days. In Brazil, we found no studies of anesthesiologists' adherence to the practice of the checklist. ⋯ The seven items questionnaire showed adequate internal consistency and a well-defined factor structure, and can be used as a tool to measure the anesthesiologists' perceptions about the checklist usefulness and applicability.
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Reporting guidelines, such as the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement, improve the reporting of research in the medical literature (Turner et al., 2012). Many such guidelines exist, and the CONSORT Extension to Nonpharmacological Trials (Boutron et al., 2008) provides suitable guidance for reporting between-groups intervention studies in the behavioral sciences. The CONSORT Extension for N-of-1 Trials (CENT 2015) was developed for multiple crossover trials with single individuals in the medical sciences (Shamseer et al., 2015; Vohra et al., 2015), but there is no reporting guideline in the CONSORT tradition for single-case research used in the behavioral sciences. ⋯ The article complements the more detailed SCRIBE 2016 Explanation and Elaboration article (Tate et al., 2016) that provides a rationale for each of the items and examples of adequate reporting from the literature. Both these resources will assist authors to prepare reports of single-case research with clarity, completeness, accuracy, and transparency. They will also provide journal reviewers and editors with a practical checklist against which such reports may be critically evaluated.