Compliance with Surgical Safety Checklist completion in the operating room of University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes

Gashaw M. Getahun²  Tadesse B. Melekie¹ 

[1] Department of Medical Anesthesiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia;Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

关键词: Sign-out;    Time-out;    Sign-in;    Safety;    Surgery;    Implementation;   

Others  :  1230875
DOI  :  10.1186/s13104-015-1338-y

 received in 2014-06-05, accepted in 2015-08-12,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Appropriate utilization and compliance of Surgical Safety Checklist reduces occurrence of perioperative surgical complications and improve patient outcomes. However, data on compliance of surgical checklists are scarce in the study area. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate compliance of checklist completion and its barrier for utilization at University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia.

Methods

A prospective observational study was conducted among 282 patients undergoing elective and emergency surgery from January to March 2013. Compliance and completeness rate with implementation of Sign-in, Time-out, and Sign-out domains was computed with SPSS 20 package.

Results

A total of 282 operations were performed and checklists were utilized in 39.7 % (112/282) of cases. Among these, most checklists were employed during emergency procedures (61.6 %) that need general anesthesia (75.9 %) in department of surgery (58.9 %). The overall compliance and completeness rate were 39.7 and 63.4 % respectively. The sign-in, time-out and sign-out were missed in 30.5 % (273/896), 35.4 % (436/1,232) and 45.7 % (307/672) respectively. The main reasons cited for non-user were lack of previous training (45.1 %) and lack of cooperation among surgical team members (21.6 %).

Conclusions and recommendations

The completeness rate was satisfactory but the overall compliance rate was suboptimal. An instrument that is used 40 % of the time has been a fairly basic introduction without significant reinforcement training. Moreover, frequent use of the checklist during emergency cases has been deemed to be of value by clinicians. Supplementary training and attention to actual checklist use would be indicated to ensure that this valuable tool could be used more routinely and improve communication. Conducting regular audit of checklist utilization is also recommended.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Melekie and Getahun.

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