Is the Surgical Safety Checklist successfully conducted? An observational study of social interactions in the operating rooms of a tertiary hospital.

Stéphane Cullati; Sophie Le Du; Anne-Claire Raë; Martine Micallef; Ebrahim Khabiri; Aimad Ourahmoune; Armelle Boireaux; Marc Licker; Pierre Chopard

Study

Is the Surgical Safety Checklist successfully conducted? An observational study of social interactions in the operating rooms of a tertiary hospital.

August 7, 2013

Cullati S, Le Du S, Raë A-C, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22(8).

View more articles from the same authors.

In this study performed at a Swiss teaching hospital, adherence to the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist was suboptimal. Although the checklist was used and time outs were conducted in nearly all procedures, many items on the checklist were left unconfirmed.

Available at

PubMed citation

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

When illegitimate tasks threaten patient safety culture: a cross-sectional survey in a tertiary hospital.

October 11, 2023

Using the Targeted Solutions Tool to improve hand hygiene compliance is associated with decreased health care–associated infections.

April 6, 2016

Do pharmacist-led medication reviews in hospitals help reduce hospital readmissions? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

October 19, 2016

Trust and medical AI: the challenges we face and the expertise needed to overcome them.

April 21, 2021

A risk analysis method to evaluate the impact of a Computerized Provider Order Entry system on patient safety.

May 28, 2008

Chemotherapeutic errors in hospitalised cancer patients: attributable damage and extra costs.

February 1, 2012

Error disclosure in neonatal intensive care: a multicentre, prospective, observational study.

May 10, 2023

Electronic tools to support medication reconciliation—a systematic review.

July 13, 2016

Interventions to promote safety culture in cancer care: a systematic review.

December 20, 2023

Effectiveness of double checking to reduce medication administration errors: a systematic review.

September 18, 2019

Oncology nurses' perceptions about involving patients in the prevention of chemotherapy administration errors.

April 14, 2010

Failure events in transition of care for surgical patients.

March 5, 2014

A mixed-methods systematic review of interventions to address incivility in nursing.

July 15, 2020

Approaches for improving continuity of care in medication management: a systematic review.

October 9, 2013

Differential impact of a crew resource management program according to professional specialty.

February 15, 2012

Health care risk managers' consensus on the management of inappropriate behaviors among hospital staff.

September 26, 2018

How effective are electronic medication systems in reducing medication error rates and associated harm among hospital inpatients? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

December 2, 2020

A systematic review of adult admissions to ICUs related to adverse drug events.

January 28, 2015

An observational study of adult admissions to a medical ICU due to adverse drug events.

March 16, 2016

The influence of race and gender on pain management: a systematic literature review.

December 15, 2015

Reporting adverse events in a war zone.

July 18, 2018

Quality of reporting of studies evaluating time to diagnosis: a systematic review in paediatrics.

December 18, 2013

Patient safety incidents are common in primary care: a national prospective active incident reporting survey.

March 15, 2017

Overnight stay in the emergency department and mortality in older patients.

November 29, 2023

COVID-19 increased the risk of ICU-acquired bloodstream infections: a case-cohort study from the multicentric OUTCOMEREA network.

March 17, 2021

Intervening in interruptions: what exactly is the risk we are trying to manage?

October 11, 2017

Guidelines on Human Factors in Critical Situations 2023.

August 9, 2023

French national survey of inpatient adverse events prospectively assessed with ward staff.

October 17, 2007

Hand hygiene among physicians: performance, beliefs, and perceptions.

March 27, 2005

Benefactor or burden: exploring the professional identity of safety professionals.

October 24, 2018

Compelled disclosure of confidential information in patient safety research.

April 21, 2021

The ‘new view’ of human error. Origins, ambiguities, successes and critiques.

September 14, 2022

Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers.

January 27, 2021

Insensible losses: when the medical community forgets the family.

May 6, 2015

Risk, society and system failure.

August 30, 2006

Do trainees feel that they belong to a team?

July 19, 2017

A web application to involve patients in the medication reconciliation process: a user-centered usability and usefulness study.

December 19, 2018

Effectiveness of the surgical safety checklist in a high standard care environment.

July 31, 2013

Hospital-acquired SARS-Cov-2 infections in patients: inevitable conditions or medical malpractice?

February 10, 2021

Patient-as-observer approach: an alternative method for hand hygiene auditing in an ambulatory care setting.

April 30, 2014

Fostering patient safety competencies using multiple-patient simulation experiences.

December 9, 2009

Patients count on it: an initiative to reduce incorrect counts and prevent retained surgical items.

January 18, 2012

Impact of technological and departmental changes on incident rates in radiation oncology over a seventeen-year period.

June 30, 2021

Just what the doctor ordered. Review of the evidence of the impact of computerized physician order entry system on medication errors.

July 11, 2007

Adequacy of hospital discharge summaries in documenting tests with pending results and outpatient follow-up providers.

July 29, 2009

Good and bad reasons: the Swiss cheese model and its critics.

August 12, 2020

Imperfect practice makes perfect: error management training improves transfer of learning.

April 26, 2017

Types and patterns of safety concerns in home care: client and family caregiver perspectives.

March 9, 2016

Developing a hospital-wide quality and safety dashboard: a qualitative research study.

August 22, 2018

Drug selection errors in relation to medication labels: a simulation study.

October 24, 2007

Danger in discharge summaries: abbreviations create confusion for both author and recipient.

May 31, 2023

Implementing smart infusion pumps with dose-error reduction software: real-world experiences.

May 24, 2017

Producing effective treatment, enhancing safety: medical physicists' strategies to ensure quality in radiotherapy.

September 19, 2012

Medication reconciliation in the geriatric unit: impact on the maintenance of post-hospitalization prescriptions.

October 13, 2021

Using electronic health records to identify adverse drug events in ambulatory care: a systematic review.

March 13, 2019

Provider risk factors for medication administration error alerts: analyses of a large-scale closed-loop medication administration system using RFID and barcode.

October 5, 2016

Patient-assisted incident reporting: including the patient in patient safety.

June 1, 2011

Trend analysis of radiation therapy incidents over seven years.

August 25, 2010

How to avoid catastrophic events on the ward.

July 27, 2016

Communication of preclinical emergency teams in critical situations: a nationwide study.

May 26, 2021

The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients.

January 17, 2007

Feasibility first: developing public performance indicators on patient safety and clinical effectiveness for Dutch hospitals.

December 7, 2005

Differences of reasons for alert overrides on contraindicated co-prescriptions by admitting department.

December 17, 2014

Types and patterns of safety concerns in home care: staff perspectives.

October 31, 2012

Improving safety in the operating room: a systematic literature review of retained surgical sponges.

June 3, 2009

Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement: findings from six case studies.

June 8, 2022

Problem-based training improves recognition of patient hazards by advanced medical students during chart review: a randomized controlled crossover study.

May 7, 2014

The objective impact of clinical peer review on hospital quality and safety.

February 16, 2011

An assessment of the impact of just culture on quality and safety in US hospitals.

May 9, 2018

An organizational learning framework for patient safety.

April 13, 2016

In pursuit of quality and safety: an 8-year study of clinical peer review best practices in US hospitals.

November 28, 2018

A longitudinal study of clinical peer review's impact on quality and safety in US hospitals.

November 27, 2013

The impact of transition to a digital hospital on medication errors (TIME study).

August 16, 2023

Analyzing and discussing human factors affecting surgical patient safety using innovative technology: creating a safer operating culture.

August 31, 2022

Patient handover from surgery to intensive care: using Formula 1 pit-stop and aviation models to improve safety and quality.

May 23, 2007

Blood and blood products transfusion errors: what can we do to improve patient safety.

May 10, 2023

Medication reconciliation in acute care: ensuring an accurate drug regimen on admission and discharge.

July 13, 2005

Patient safety: do nursing and medical curricula address this theme?

June 1, 2005

Effectiveness of a ‘do not interrupt’ vest intervention to reduce medication errors during medication administration: a multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial.

October 13, 2021

February 8, 2017

The impact of patient and public involvement on UK NHS health care: a systematic review.

January 30, 2005

Patient safety in community dementia services: what can we learn from the experiences of caregivers and healthcare professionals?

February 15, 2017

Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites.

April 4, 2016

'Doing the best we can': Registered nurses' experiences and perceptions of patient safety in intensive care during COVID-19.

September 7, 2022

Significant reduction in preanalytical errors for nonphlebotomy blood draws after implementation of a novel integrated specimen collection module.

December 14, 2016

Recognition and management of potential drug-drug interactions in patients on internal medicine wards.

November 21, 2007

Hospice diagnosis: polypharmacy—a teachable moment.

October 7, 2015

The role of bias in clinical decision-making of people with serious mental illness and medical co-morbidities: a scoping review.

February 22, 2023

Adverse event reporting: lessons learned from 4 years of Florida office data.

October 5, 2005

Impact of organizational culture on preventability assessment of selected adverse events in the ICU: evaluation of morbidity and mortality conferences.

June 19, 2013

Nurses' perception of shift handovers in Europe - results from the European Nurses' Early Exit Study.

February 21, 2007

How reliable is your hospital? A qualitative framework for analysing reliability levels.

September 7, 2011

Computer technology and clinical work: still waiting for Godot.

April 3, 2005

Work conditions, mental workload and patient care quality: a multisource study in the emergency department.

October 14, 2015

Polypharmacy in hospitalized older adult cancer patients: experience from a prospective, observational study of an oncology-acute care for elders unit.

August 5, 2009

Compensation of chief executive officers at nonprofit US hospitals.

October 30, 2013

Reducing inappropriate polypharmacy in primary care through pharmacy-led interventions.

January 22, 2020

Interventions designed to improve the safety and quality of therapeutic anticoagulation in an inpatient electronic medical record.

April 22, 2020

The prevalence of dose errors among paediatric patients in hospital wards with and without health information technology: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

October 24, 2018

Nurse workload and inexperienced medical staff members are associated with seasonal peaks in severe adverse events in the adult medical intensive care unit: a seven-year prospective study.

August 10, 2016

Related Resources

Patient safety in the operating room.

September 21, 2023

The role of an assistant nurse in implementing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist: perception and perspectives.

July 5, 2023

Cognitive aids in the management of clinical emergencies: a systematic review.

January 18, 2023

Five-year audit of adherence to an anaesthesia pre-induction checklist.

March 30, 2022

"Some version, most of the time": the surgical safety checklist, patient safety, and the everyday experience of practice variation.

January 19, 2022

Surgical teams' attitudes about surgical safety and the surgical safety checklist at 10 years: a multinational survey.

November 17, 2021

How much and what local adaptation is acceptable? A comparison of 24 surgical safety checklists in Switzerland.

March 24, 2021

Clinical efficacy of combined surgical patient safety system and the World Health Organization's checklists in surgery: a nonrandomized clinical trial.

June 3, 2020

How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties.

March 18, 2020

Impact of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist on patient safety.

June 12, 2019

How one health system overcame resistance to a surgical checklist.

May 29, 2019

Reducing surgical mortality in Scotland by use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

May 8, 2019

Operating room fires.

February 6, 2019

Scaling safety: the South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist experience.

January 9, 2019

Seen through the patients' eyes: surgical safety and checklists.

February 21, 2018

Enhancing the quality and safety of the perioperative patient.

February 7, 2018

Relationship between operating room teamwork, contextual factors, and safety checklist performance.

August 31, 2016

The impact of surgical safety checklists on theatre departments: a critical review of the literature.

June 22, 2016

Information transfer in multidisciplinary operating room teams: a simulation-based observational study.

May 18, 2016

Implementation of the surgical safety checklist in South Carolina hospitals is associated with improvement in perceived perioperative safety.

May 11, 2016

Factors that drive team participation in surgical safety checks: a prospective study.

March 23, 2016

The effect of a checklist on the quality of patient handover from the operating room to the intensive care unit: a randomized controlled trial.

February 24, 2016

A comparative effectiveness analysis of the implementation of surgical safety checklists in a tertiary care hospital.

February 10, 2016

Remote video auditing with real-time feedback in an academic surgical suite improves safety and efficiency metrics: a cluster randomised study.

February 10, 2016

Making checklists work: South Carolina's statewide experiment.

February 3, 2016

A 'paperless' wall-mounted surgical safety checklist with migrated leadership can improve compliance and team engagement.

January 27, 2016

Combining systems and teamwork approaches to enhance the effectiveness of safety improvement interventions in surgery: the Safer Delivery of Surgical Services (S3) program.

January 20, 2016

Guideline for prevention of retained surgical items.

January 20, 2016

Enhancing surgical safety using digital multimedia technology.

November 25, 2015

Implementation of safety checklists in surgery: a realist synthesis of evidence.

November 4, 2015

See More About The Topic

Operating Room

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Organizational Behaviorists

Surgery

Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events

Is the Surgical Safety Checklist successfully conducted? An observational study of social interactions in the operating rooms of a tertiary hospital.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Is the Surgical Safety Checklist successfully conducted? An observational study of social interactions in the operating rooms of a tertiary hospital.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site