The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals.

Marcia Facey; Nancy Noel Baxter; Melanie Hammond Mobilio; Carol‐anne Moulton; Elise Paradis

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The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals.

March 13, 2024

Facey M, Baxter NN, Hammond Mobilio M, et al. Sociol Health Illn. 2024;Epub Feb 1.

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Surgical safety checklists (SSC) have been shown to improve patient safety, but several studies have exposed they are not always completed as intended. This ethnographic study concludes, thorough interviews, surveys, and observations, that the SCC tends to be completed as a perfunctory task, not to improve patient safety.

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