Implementation of the world health organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 633-639

  Kwok, Alvin C ^a,b   Funk, Luke M ^a,b   Baltaga, Ruslan ^c   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b   Merry, Alan F ^d   Dziekan, Gerald ^e   Ciobanu, Gheorghe ^c   Berry, William R ^a,b   Gawande, Atul A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c National Scientific Practical Institute for Preventive Medicine   (Moldova)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

global health; patient safety; pulse oximetry; Surgical Safety Checklist; WHO

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLDOVA; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPERATING ROOM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETER; PULSE OXIMETRY; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREND STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SURGICAL SAFETY CHECKLIST;

CHECKLIST; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; OXIMETRY; PATIENT SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84875212331     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182777fa4     Document Type: Article

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