According to a new study in Lancet, millions of people are dying from treatable surgical interventions which could have saved their lives (Mazumdar, 2015). Two third of the world’s population have no access to safe and affordable surgery. Safe Surgery, Quality improvement, Surgical safety Checklist, morbidity and mortality, patient safety Adaptive changes brought to the department culture of introducing SSCL may take longer time to achieve the target compliance but imparting the culture is more important for the sustainable improvements.
Compliance for process indicators reveals a good patient safety outcome comparatively.Ĭonclusion: The study revealed inconsistencies when applying SSCL with missing documentation and incomplete items of checklist during the three phases over the period. Total compliance for Sign-in phase was 74%, Time-out phase was 83% and 78% in Sign-out phase. Overall compliance of the SSCL completed was 67% addressing all the items of the checklist during the three phases, however 33% of the cases failed to complete either one of the items in the checklist in one of the phase over the study period.
The data was analyzed using three variables, Sign-in, Time-out and Sign- out, and the results are displayed as percentage. Method:Ī retrospective study design was used to analyze three hundred and ninety-eight surgical procedures, from January 2017 till March 2018. The objective is to investigate the compliance of Surgical Safety checklist completion in operation theatres of tertiary care hospital in Maldives. The implementation of 19 – items Surgical Safety Checklist developed by the World Health Organization, is being enforced in operation theatres globally.Existing evidence suggests that communication failures are common in the operating room, and that they lead to increased complications, including infections Aim/s: Research suggests that Surgical Safety Checklist (SSCL) can reduce mortality and other post-operative complications. Home / Compliance of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist completion in operation theatres of Tertiary Care Hospital, Maldives: Safe surgery saves life Abstract
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