Surgical safety checklist compliance process as a moral hazard: An institutional ethnography.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Charting is an essential component of professional nursing practice and is arguably a key element of patient safety in surgery: without proper, objective, and timely documentation, both benign and tragical errors can occur. From surgery on wrong patients to wrong limbs, to the omission of antibiotics administration, many harms can happen in the operating room. Documentation has thus served as a safeguard for patient safety, professional responsibility, and professional accountability. In this context, we were puzzled by the practices we observed with respect to charting compliance with the surgical safety checklist (SSC) during a study of surgical teams in a large, urban teaching hospital in Canada (pseudonym 'C&C').

Methods

This article leverages institutional et

SUBMITTER: Facey M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10896539 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature