Key result
Standardized care and surgical safety checklists help prevent wrong-site surgery, retained items, and surgical fires.
Why the study?
The likelihood and magnitude of risk for wrong site surgery, retained surgical items, and surgical fires are undefined, and current vigilance actions alone have been unsuccessful in preventing these rare surgical patient safety events.
Population
Surgical patients in the modern operating room
Comparison
Standardized processes of care and Surgical Patient Safety Checklist vs usual practice
Design
Review
Authors
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Literature supports checklists to prevent surgical errors; leaves open need for prospective validation in GI procedures.
Standardized processes and checklists are necessary to systematically prevent rare but critical surgical safety events like wrong site surgery, retained items, and fires.
Verna C. Gibbs (2012) conducted a review in Surgical patient safety events (wrong site surgery, retained surgical items, surgical fires). Standardized processes of care and Surgical Patient Safety Checklist was evaluated. Standardized processes of care and a Surgical Patient Safety Checklist are proposed to mitigate or prevent wrong site surgery, retained surgical items, and surgical fires in the operating room.
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