Feasibility of implementing a surgical patient safety checklist: prospective cross-sectional evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization's Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 call for attention to patient and family involvement to reduce preventable patient harm. Existing evidence indicates that patients' involvement in their own safety has positive effects on reducing hospitalisation time and readmissions. One intervention reported in the literature is the use of checklists designed for patients' completion. Studies on such checklists are small scale, but they are linked to reduction in length of hospital stay and readmissions. We have previously developed and validated a two-part surgical patient safety checklist (PASC). This study aims to investigate the feasibility of the PASC usage and implementation prior to its use in a large-scale clinical trial.

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SUBMITTER: Harris K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040905 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature