Surgical checklists: the human factor.

Paul E. Ó Connor; Fergal O'Duffy; Ivan James Keogh

doi:10.13025/22397

Surgical checklists: the human factor.

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Surgical checklists has been shown to improve patient safety and teamwork in the operating theatre. However, despite the known benefits of the use of checklists in surgery, in some cases the practical implementation has been found to be less than universal. A questionnaire methodology was used to quantitatively evaluate the attitudes of theatre staff towards a modified version of the World Health Organisation (WHO) surgical checklist with relation to: beliefs about levels of compliance and support, impact on patient safety and teamwork, and barriers to the use of the checklist.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Journal	Patient Safety in Surgery
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13025/22397
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2013

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