Clinical Audit of Compliance with WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in a Private Tertiary Care Surgical Facility
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https://doi.org/10.48111/2022.01.04Keywords:
Audit, surgical audit, WHO safety checklist, WHO, Safe surgery, WHO surgical safety checklistAbstract
Background: WHO safe surgery checklist was designed to reduce the avoidable surgical errors. Literature has shown that after applying this checklist in hospitals a significant drop in complications, mortality and morbidity is observed.
Methods: It is a prospective study carried out at a tertiary care hospital after approval of institutional review board. Study was divided into two phases. In the first phase, we developed a questionnaire based on WHO safe surgery checklist to see the compliance of our anaesthesia, nursing and surgical staff to the checklist. The results were shared with the relevant departments. A re-audit will be done in the second phase.
Results and discussion: 123 patients were included in the first phase of the study. The sign in checklist was fully implemented in 35 of 50 total patients (70%). The time out checklist was fully implemented for 1 of 39 total patients (2.6%) and the Sign out checklist was fully implemented for 0 of 34 total patients (0%).
Conclusion: Poor compliance was observed with the “Time out” section of safe surgery checklist in our study. This information can help us identify the problems which can be amended in the future
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