World Health Organization (WHO) surgical safety checklist implementation and its impact on perioperative morbidity and mortality in an academic medical center in Chile

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 2016, Pages

  Lacassie, Hector J ^a   Ferdinand, Constanza ^b   Guzman, Sergio ^a   Camus, Lorena ^a   Echevarria, Ghislaine C ^a,c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b CLÍNICA LAS CONDES   (Chile)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Checklist; Latin America; Morbidity; Mortality; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CHECKLIST; CHILE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WHO SURGICAL SAFETY CHECKLIST; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRENDS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CHECKLIST; CHILE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84975471966     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003844     Document Type: Article

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