Barriers to staff adoption of a surgical safety checklist.

Aude Fourcade; Jean-Louis Blache; Catherine Grenier; Jean-Louis Bourgain; Etienne Minvielle

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Barriers to staff adoption of a surgical safety checklist.

November 30, 2011

Fourcade A, Blache J-L, Grenier C, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21(3):191-7.

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This study highlighted 11 barriers to adopting checklists with many of them dependent on the organizational and cultural factors in a given center.

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