Creating a high‐performance surgical safety checklist: A multimodal evaluation plan to reinvigorate the checklist

R Moyal‐Smith, JC Etheridge, SR Lim… - Journal of Evaluation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Rationale, Aims, and Objectives The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is a
communication tool designed to improve surgical safety processes and enhance teamwork …

Mortality trends after a voluntary checklist-based surgical safety collaborative

AB Haynes, L Edmondson, SR Lipsitz, G Molina… - Annals of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To determine whether completion of a voluntary, checklist-based surgical quality
improvement program is associated with reduced 30-day postoperative mortality …

Implementation of the surgical safety checklist in South Carolina hospitals is associated with improvement in perceived perioperative safety

G Molina, W Jiang, L Edmondson, L Gibbons… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Previous research suggests that surgical safety checklists (SSCs) are
associated with reductions in postoperative morbidity and mortality as well as improvement …

Factors associated with the use of cognitive aids in operating room crises: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers

S Alidina, SN Goldhaber-Fiebert, AA Hannenberg… - Implementation …, 2018 - Springer
Background Operating room (OR) crises are high-acuity events requiring rapid, coordinated
management. Medical judgment and decision-making can be compromised in stressful …

Relationship between operating room teamwork, contextual factors, and safety checklist performance

SJ Singer, G Molina, Z Li, W Jiang, S Nurudeen… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Studies show that using surgical safety checklists (SSCs) reduces
complications. Many believe SSCs accomplish this by enhancing teamwork, but evidence is …

Improving surgical quality in low-income and middle-income countries: why do some health facilities perform better than others?

S Alidina, P Chatterjee, N Zanial, SS Alreja… - BMJ Quality & …, 2021 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background Evidence on heterogeneity in outcomes of surgical quality interventions in low-
income and middle-income countries is limited. We explored factors driving performance in …

Scaling safety: the South Carolina surgical safety checklist experience

WR Berry, L Edmondson, LR Gibbons, AK Childers… - Health …, 2018 - healthaffairs.org
Proven patient safety solutions such as the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety
Checklist are challenging to implement at scale. A voluntary initiative was launched in South …

Surgical teams' attitudes about surgical safety and the surgical safety checklist at 10 years: a multinational survey

D Urban, BK Burian, K Patel, NW Turley… - Annals of surgery …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To assess health care professionals' attitudes on the Surgical Safety Checklist
(“the Checklist”) in resource-rich health systems and provide insights on strategies for …

Perception of safety of surgical practice among operating room personnel from survey data is associated with all-cause 30-day postoperative death rate in South …

G Molina, WR Berry, SR Lipsitz, L Edmondson… - Annals of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate whether the perception of safety of surgical practice among operating
room (OR) personnel is associated with hospital-level 30-day postoperative death …

Effectiveness of a multicomponent safe surgery intervention on improving surgical quality in Tanzania's Lake Zone: protocol for a quasi-experimental study

S Alidina, S Kuchukhidze, G Menon, I Citron… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Effective, scalable strategies for improving surgical quality are urgently needed
in low-income and middle-income countries; however, there is a dearth of evidence about …