Adherence to the WHO surgical safety checklist: an observational study in a Swiss academic center.

Conclusion: The study illustrates factors, which foster and hinder consistent application of the WHO surgical safety checklist namely individual, procedural and contextual. It also demonstrates that the TTO was consistently and correctly applied, while the unavailability of key OR team members at sign-out time was the most common reason for omission or incomplete use of the TSO. PMID: 30918531 [PubMed]

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Source: Patient Safety in Surgery - March 29, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Schwendimann R, Blatter C, Lüthy M, Mohr G, Girard T, Batzer S, Davis E, Hoffmann H Tags: Patient Saf Surg Source Type: research