Impact of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist on safety culture in the operating theatre: a controlled intervention study.

A. S. Haugen; E. Søfteland; G. E. Eide; N. Sevdalis; C. Vincent; M. W. Nortvedt; S. Harthug

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Impact of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist on safety culture in the operating theatre: a controlled intervention study.

September 5, 2013

Haugen AS, Søfteland E, Eide GE, et al. Br J Anaesth. 2013;110(5):807-15.

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Introduction of the Surgical Safety Checklist was associated with only a modest improvement in perceptions of safety culture in a Norwegian hospital.

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