Articles: checklist.
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The COSMIN checklist is a standardized tool for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties. It contains 9 boxes, each dealing with one measurement property, with 5-18 items per box about design aspects and statistical methods. Our aim was to develop a scoring system for the COSMIN checklist to calculate quality scores per measurement property when using the checklist in systematic reviews of measurement properties. ⋯ Based on experience in testing this scoring system on 46 articles, the COSMIN checklist with the proposed scoring system seems to be a useful tool for assessing the methodological quality of studies included in systematic reviews of measurement properties.
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To plan, implement and evaluate strategies for implementation of Checklist in a general surgery operating rooms and preliminary evaluation of the experience in view of the nurses. ⋯ The qualitative assessment is useful to know the attitudes, opinions and problems of nurses for the implementation of innovations that require interdisciplinary collaboration The application workload increases, but makes visible some activities. The broad participation of nurses reveal their involvement to promote patient safety, but also their training needs. It is essential to the awareness of all professionals to carry out the checklist, which can only be imposed if there is a culture change, innovation and safety and teamwork. For the test does not fall into the routine, it would be wise to do a periodic evaluation. The list should be clear, concise and reliable.
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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · May 2012
Practice GuidelineEACTS guidelines for the use of patient safety checklists.
The Safety Checklist concept has been an integral part of many industries that face high-complexity tasks for many decades and in industries such as aviation and engineering checklists have evolved from their very inception. Investigations of the causes of surgical deaths around the world have repeatedly pointed to medical errors that could be prevented as an important cause of death and disability. As a result, the World Health Organisation developed and evaluated a three-stage surgical checklist in 2007 demonstrating that complications were significantly reduced, including surgical infection rates and even mortality. ⋯ A key factor in the successful implementation of a surgical checklist is engagement of the staff implementing the checklist. In surgical specialties such as our own it was quickly seen that there were many important omissions in the generic checklist that did not cover issues particular to our specialty, and thus the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery embarked on a process to create a version of the checklist that might be more appropriate and specific to cardiothoracic surgery, including checks on preparations for excessive bleeding, perfusion arrangements and ICU preparations, for example. The guideline presented here summarizes the evidence for the surgical checklist and also goes through in detail the changes recommended for our specialty.