Sustainability and long-term effectiveness of the WHO surgical safety checklist combined with pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting: Two-year update from Moldova

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 473-479

  Kim, Rebecca Y ^a,b   Kwakye, Gifty ^c   Kwok, Alvin C ^d   Baltaga, Ruslan ^e   Ciobanu, Gheorghe ^e   Merry, Alan F ^f   Funk, Luke M ^g   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^c   Gawande, Atul A ^c   Berry, William R ^a   Haynes, Alex B ^h  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY NICOLAE TESTEMITANU   (Moldova)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EASTERN EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HARM REDUCTION; HEART ARREST; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEADERSHIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLDOVA; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIMETRY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROLE PLAYING; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SAFETY CHECKLIST; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHECKLIST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLDOVA; OXIMETRY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84929664352     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: 21686262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.3848     Document Type: Article

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