Surgical checklists: The human factor

Patient Safety in Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  O'Connor, Paul ^a   Reddin, Catriona ^a   O'Sullivan, Michael ^a   O'Duffy, Fergal ^a   Keogh, Ivan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Patient safety; Surgery; Surgical checklist

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IRISH; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PATIENT SAFETY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURGICAL CHECKLIST; TEAMWORK; TRAINING; WORKLOAD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84877624978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17549493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-7-14     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Flin R, Mitchell L. Safer surgery 2009, Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd..
2. Gawande AA, Thomas EJ, Zinner MJ, Brennan TA. The incidence and nature of surgical adverse events in Colorado and Utah in 1992. Surgery 1999, 126:66-75. 10.1067/msy.1999.98664, 10418594.
3. Mehtsun WT, Ibrahim AM, Diener-West M, Pronovost PJ, Makary MA. Surgical never events in the United States. Surgery 2013, 153:364-472.
4. World Alliance for Patient Safety Implementation manual surgical safety checklist 2008, Geneva, Swizerland: World Health Organization, World Alliance for Patient Safety.
5. Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, Lipsitz SR, Breizat AH, Dellinger EP, Herbosa T, Joseph S, Kibatala PL, Lapitan MC, Merry AF, Moorthy K, Reznick RK, Taylor B, Gawande AA. A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. N Engl J Med 2009, 360:491-499. 10.1056/NEJMsa0810119, 19144931.
6. Weiser TG, Haynes AB, Dziekan G, Berry WR, Lipsitz SR, Gawande AA. Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. Ann Surg 2010, 251:976-980. 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181d970e3, 20395848.
7. Nilsson L, Lindberget O, Gupta A, Vegfors M. Implementing a pre-operative checklist to increase patient safety: a 1-year follow-up of personnel attitudes. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2010, 54:176-182. 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02109.x, 19719811.
8. Helmio P, Blomgren K, Takala A, Pauniaho SL, Takala RS, Ikonen TS. Towards better patient safety: WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in otorhinolaryngology. Clin Otolaryngol 2011, 36:242-247. 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2011.02315.x, 21481197.
9. Gueguen T, Coevoet V, Mougeot M, Pierron A, Blanquart D, Voicu M, Bouaziz H, Audibert G, Empereur F, Mertes PM. Deployment of the checklist "Patient safety in the operating room" in two Lorraine hospitals. Performances and difficulties. Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2011, 30:489-494. 10.1016/j.annfar.2011.04.006, 21616629.
10. Paugam-Burtz C, Guerrero O. French surgical checklist in a universitary hospital: achievements one year after implementation. Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2011, 30:475-478. 10.1016/j.annfar.2011.04.005, 21612886.
11. Fishbein M, Ajzen I. Predicting and changing behavior 2010, New York: Psychology Press.
12. Nunnally JC. Psychometric Theory 1978, New York: McGraw-Hill.
13. Howell DC. Statistical methods for psychology 1992, Belmont, CA: PWS-KENT Publishing Co..
14. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 1977, 33:159-174. 10.2307/2529310, 843571.
15. Mahajan RP. The WHO surgical checklist. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 2011, 25:161-168. 10.1016/j.bpa.2011.02.002, 21550541.
16. O'Connor P, Keogh I, Ryan S. A comparison of the teamwork attitudes and knowledge of Irish surgeons and U.S. Naval aviators. Surgeon 2012, 10:278-282. 10.1016/j.surge.2011.09.001, 22959161.
17. Vats A, Vincent CA, Nagpal K, Davies RW, Darzi A, Moorthy K. Practical challenges of introducing WHO surgical checklist: UK pilot experience. BMJ 2010, 340:b5433. 10.1136/bmj.b5433, 20071413.
18. Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, Holzmueller CG, Millman EA, Rowen L, Pronovost PJ. Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder. J Am Coll Surg 2006, 202:746-752. 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.01.017, 16648014.
19. Lingard L, Espin S, Rubin B, Whyte S, Colmenares M, Baker GR, Doran D, Grober E, Orser B, Bohnen J, Reznick R. Getting teams to talk: development and pilot implementation of a checklist to promote interprofessional communication in the OR. Qual Saf Health Care 2005, 14:340-346. 10.1136/qshc.2004.012377, 1744073, 16195567.
20. Gaba DM. Anaesthesiology as a model for patient safety in health care. BMJ 2000, 320:785-788. 10.1136/bmj.320.7237.785, 1117775, 10720368.
21. France DJ, Leming-Lee S, Jackson T, Feistritzer NR, Higgins MS. An observational analysis of surgical team compliance with perioperative safety practices after crew resource management training. Am J Surg 2008, 195:546-553. 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.04.012, 18304501.
22. Sewell M, Adebibe M, Jayakumar P, Jowett C, Kong K, Vemulapalli K, Levack B. Use of the WHO surgical safety checklist in trauma and orthopaedic patients. Int Orthop 2011, 35:897-901. 10.1007/s00264-010-1112-7, 3103968, 20730425.
23. Waehle HV, Haugen AS, Softeland E, Hjalmhult E. Adjusting team involvement: a grounded theory study of challenges in utilizing a surgical safety checklist as experienced by nurses in the operating room. BMC Nurs 2012, 11:16. 10.1186/1472-6955-11-16, 3499446, 22958326.
24. Bosk CL, Dixon-Woods M, Goeschel CA, Pronovost PJ. Reality check for checklists. Lancet 2009, 374:444-445. 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61440-9, 19681190.
25. Flin R, Yule S, McKenzie L, Paterson-Brown S, Maran N. Attitudes to teamwork and safety in the operating theatre. Surgeon 2006, 4:145-151. 10.1016/S1479-666X(06)80084-3, 16764199.