Articles: checklist.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Feb 2010
Implementing a pre-operative checklist to increase patient safety: a 1-year follow-up of personnel attitudes.
The operating room is a complex work environment with a high potential for adverse events. Protocols for perioperative verification processes have increasingly been recommended by professional organizations during the last few years. We assessed personnel attitudes to a pre-operative checklist ('time out') immediately before start of the operative procedure. ⋯ Staff attitudes toward a surgical checklist were mostly positive 1 year after their introduction in two large hospitals in central Sweden.
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Patient safety in surgery · Jan 2010
The SURgical PAtient Safety System (SURPASS) checklist optimizes timing of antibiotic prophylaxis.
Surgical site infection (SSI) is an adverse event in which a close relation between process of care and outcome has been demonstrated: administration of antibiotic prophylaxis decreases the risk of SSI. In our tertiary referral centre, a SURgical PAtient Safety System (SURPASS) checklist was developed and implemented. This multidisciplinary checklist covers the entire surgical pathway and includes, among other items, administration of antibiotic prophylaxis before induction of anaesthesia. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of SURPASS implementation on timing of antibiotic prophylaxis. ⋯ The use of the SURPASS checklist leads to better compliance with regard to the timing of antibiotic prophylaxis administration.