BACKGROUND Team-based group communications using checklists are widely advocated to achieve shared understandings and improve patient safety. Despite the positive effect checklists have on collaborations and reduced postoperative complications, their use has not been straightforward. Previous research has described contextual factors that impact on the implementation of checklists, however ther...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the items on the Time Out and the Sign Out of the Surgical Safety Checklist are properly checked by operating room (OR) staff and to explore whether the number of checked items is influenced by the severity of the intervention and the use of the checklist as a memory tool during the Time Out and the Sign Out periods. METHODS From March to July 2010, data were c...

In the 1960s the Worboys committee suggested that road traffic signs should be predominately symbolic, because they are clearer from a distance. Only eight countries that replied had a sign representing older people (table). The Namibian sign illustrated a generic picture of a pedestrian with the words “elderly people” below (fig 2). This avoids stereotyping, but the sign may not be as quickly ...

751 March 2014 C enhance patient safety by raising critical issues into the clinician’s conscious thought.1 Universal protocols and checklists help but may become rote and be bypassed,2 especially when compliance is insufficiently engaging or inconspicuous. The preoperative stop/Go sign is a highly visible, interactive checklist (fig.). A layer of adhesive stickers forms a red “stop” sign, cove...

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