BACKGROUND The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist has a growing evidence base to support its role in improving perioperative safety, although its impact is likely to be directly related to the effectiveness of its implementation. There remains a paucity of documented experience from low-resource settings on Checklist implementation approaches. We report an implementation strategy in a public referra...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Even though the use of perioperative checklists have resulted in significant reduction in postoperative mortality and morbidity, as well as improvements of important information communication, the utilization of checklists seems to vary, and perceived barriers are likely to influence compliance. In this grounded theory study we aimed to explore the challenges and strate...

OBJECTIVE To assess what proportion of surgical malpractice claims might be prevented by the use of a surgical safety checklist. BACKGROUND Surgical disciplines are overrepresented in the distribution of adverse events. The recently described multidisciplinary SURgical PAtient Safety System (SURPASS) checklist covers the entire surgical pathway from admission to discharge and is being validat...

AIM To describe the development and implementation of a person-centered endoscopy safety checklist and to evaluate the effects of a "checklist intervention". METHODS The checklist, based on previously published safety checklists, was developed and locally adapted, taking patient safety aspects into consideration and using a person-centered approach. This novel checklist was introduced to the ...

Background: Current checklists for empirical software engineering cover either experimental research or case study research but ignore the many commonalities that exist across all kinds of empirical research. Identifying these commonalities, and explaining why they exist, would enhance our understanding of empirical research in general and of the differences between experimental and case study ...

OBJECTIVE The Child Behavior Checklist is sometimes used to assess sleep disturbance despite not having been validated for this purpose. This study examined associations between the Child Behavior Checklist sleep items and other measures of sleep. METHOD Participants were 122 youth (61% female, aged 7 through 17 years) with anxiety disorders (19%), major depressive disorder (9%), both anxiety...

This prospective, case-controlled observational study assessed whether an evidence-based extubation checklist would increase anesthesia providers' documentation of standardized extubation criteria and reduce the occurrence of preventable extubation failures in the early postoperative period. The sample consisted of 622 ASA Physical Status I to IV patients, aged 10 to 100 years but primarily adu...

OBJECTIVE Patient handover is an important element of continuity, quality and safety in patient care. Handover without standardized protocols is prone to information loss and might be a possible danger to patient safety. Checklists are established methods that help to structure complex processes in other high-risk fields such as aviation. In the past few years, their implementation has attracte...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There are multiple procedural skills common to all residency programs. This study had two main objectives: (1) Use an interdisciplinary team to develop a procedural competency checklist for adult endotracheal intubation that could be shared across specialty programs and levels of training and (2) Evaluate the validity and reliability of the checklist. METHODS Clinica...

Objective: To characterize operating room practices among ophthalmologists in Connecticut pertaining to the use of the AAO surgical checklist and implant timeouts. Methods: Ophthalmologists in Connecticut were emailed an anonymous web-based 15-question survey to inquire about their practice settings, knowledge of the AAO checklist, surgical errors, use of surgical checklists and implant timeout...