Key result
The WHO surgical safety checklist is highlighted as a key tool for protecting patients from harm during surgical procedures, requiring full understanding by the administration and surgical team.
Why the study?
This review addresses patient safety during surgical interventions by explaining the principles and necessity of the WHO surgical safety checklist.
Does the WHO surgical safety checklist improve patient safety during surgical procedures?
Does the WHO surgical safety checklist improve patient safety during surgical procedures?
The WHO surgical safety checklist is a crucial tool for protecting patients from harm during surgical procedures, provided it is properly understood and implemented by the surgical team and administration.
Emphasizes checklist adoption to reduce surgical harm; leaves open effects of incomplete implementation on outcomes.
The review is devoted to mostly international data on patient safety during surgical procedures. The author emphasizes surgical safety checklist for surgical interventions as a tool developed by the WHO team. The principal objective of this document is protection of patients from harm following unintended misses and casual circumstances. The author tried to explain the basic principles and ideas underlying the checklist procedure. An importance of understanding the process by administration and surgical team is emphasized because its absence deprives this non-complicated and helpful procedure of necessary sense. The problems of patient safety in hospitals of the Russian Federation are also discussed.
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М. Г. Маслов (2023) conducted a review in Surgical procedures. Surgical safety checklist was evaluated. The WHO surgical safety checklist is highlighted as a key tool for protecting patients from harm during surgical procedures, requiring full understanding by the administration and surgical team.
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