Articles: checklist.
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Review Meta Analysis
Effect of Using a Safety Checklist on Patient Complications after Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Use of a surgical safety checklist is associated with a reduction in all complications, and specifically with wound infection and blood loss.
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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Jun 2014
ReviewQuality and safety in pediatric anesthesia: how can guidelines, checklists, and initiatives improve the outcome?
Cognitive aids are tangible or intangible instruments that guide users in decision-making and in the completion of a complex series of tasks. Common examples include mnemonics, checklists, and algorithms. Cognitive aids constitute very effective approaches to achieve well tolerated, high quality healthcare because they promote highly reliable processes that reduce the likelihood of failure. This review describes recent advances in quality improvement for pediatric anesthesiology with emphasis on application of cognitive aids to impact patient safety and outcomes. ⋯ Successful quality improvement initiatives utilize cognitive aids such as checklists and have been shown to optimize pediatric patient experience and anesthesia outcomes and reduce perioperative complications.
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BMJ quality & safety · Apr 2014
ReviewSurgical checklists: a systematic review of impacts and implementation.
Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3-17% in industrialised countries. The purpose of this review was to summarise experience with surgical checklist use and efficacy for improving patient safety. ⋯ Surgical checklists represent a relatively simple and promising strategy for addressing surgical patient safety worldwide. Further studies are needed to evaluate to what degree checklists improve clinical outcomes and whether improvements may be more pronounced in particular settings.
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Qualitative research methods are a group of techniques designed to allow the researcher to understand phenomena in their natural setting. A wide range is used, including focus groups, interviews, observation, and discourse analysis techniques, which may be used within research approaches such as grounded theory or ethnography. ⋯ Meticulous social scientific methods, transparency, reproducibility and reflexivity are markers of quality in qualitative research. Tools such as the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research checklist and the critical appraisal skills programme are available to help authors, reviewers and readers unfamiliar with qualitative research assess its merits.