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Implementation of the surgical safety checklist at a tertiary academic center: Impact on safety culture and patient outcomes

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Surgery, November 2016
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Title
Implementation of the surgical safety checklist at a tertiary academic center: Impact on safety culture and patient outcomes
Published in
American Journal of Surgery, November 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.10.027
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Areg Zingiryan, Jennifer L. Paruch, Turner M. Osler, Neil H. Hyman

Abstract

The impact and efficacy of the World Health Organization Surgery Safety Checklist (SSC) is uncertain. We sought to determine if the SSC decreases complications and examined the attitudes of the surgical team members following implementation of the SSC. A 28-question survey was developed to assess perspectives of surgical team members at the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMC). The University Health System Consortium database was examined to compare the rates of nine complications before and after SSC implementation using Chi square analysis and Fisher's exact test. There was no significant decrease in any of the nine complications 2 years after SSC implementation. There was overall agreement that the SSC improved communication, safety, and prevented errors in the operating room. However, there was disagreement between nursing and surgeons over whether all three parts of the SSC were always completed. Implementation of the SSC did not result in a significant decrease in perioperative morbidity or mortality. However, it did improve the perception of safety culture by operating room staff.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Romania 1 <1%
Unknown 132 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 24 18%
Student > Master 21 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 8%
Researcher 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 38 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 38 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 31 23%
Social Sciences 4 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 44 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 January 2022.
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#2,134,927
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Surgery
#216
of 5,051 outputs
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#40,825
of 415,950 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Surgery
#4
of 85 outputs
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