Clinical Efficacy of Combined Surgical Patient Safety System and the World Health Organization's Checklists in Surgery: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Checklists have been shown to improve patient outcomes in surgery. The intraoperatively used World Health Organization surgical safety checklist (WHO SSC) is now mandatory in many countries. The only evidenced checklist to address preoperative and postoperative care is the Surgical Patient Safety System (SURPASS), which has been found to be effective in improving patient outcomes. To date, the WHO SSC and SURPASS have not been studied jointly within the perioperative pathway.

Objective

To investigate the association of combined use of the preoperative and postoperative SURPASS and the WHO SSC in perioperative care with morbidity, mortality, and length of hospital stay.

Design, setting, and participants

In a stepped-wedge cluster nonrandomized clinical trial

SUBMITTER: Storesund A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7221852 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature