Spinal surgery complications: an unsolved problem-Is the World Health Organization Safety Surgical Checklist an useful tool to reduce them?

Giovanni Barbanti-Brodano; Cristiana Griffoni; Jarkko Halme; Giuseppe Tedesco; Silvia Terzi; Stefano Bandiera; Riccardo Ghermandi; Gisberto Evangelisti; Marco Girolami; Valerio Pipola; Alessandro Gasbarrini; Asdrubal Falavigna

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Spinal surgery complications: an unsolved problem-Is the World Health Organization Safety Surgical Checklist an useful tool to reduce them?

December 4, 2019

Barbanti-Brodano G, Griffoni C, Halme J, et al. Eur Spine J. 2019.

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Checklists are one tool for improving communication and reducing risk of adverse outcomes. The World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist has been previously studied in various surgical specialties; this study sought to determine its effectiveness in spinal surgeries. The authors conducted a retrospective analysis comparing the incidence of complications pre-checklist and post-checklist in a single center and found a significant reduction in the overall incidence of complications after the introduction of the checklist.

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