Phased implementation of surgical safety care bundle in a multispecialty, tertiary care teaching hospital: a quality improvement project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

'Safe surgery saves lives' initiative by the WHO consists of measures focussed on improving surgical safety. Healthcare institutions across the globe are encouraged to identify the lacunae in surgical safety and adopt these initiatives to suit the local practices and traditions.

Methods

A few never events and near misses prompted our institution to create a surgical care safety bundle to improve perioperative patient safety. The surgical care bundle focused on improving the usage of surgical safety checklist (SSCL), surgical consents, surgical site marking (SSM) and sponge count in a phased manner. Baseline audits were conducted for each of the above components at different time points and measures were introduced to improve compliance.

Results

The baseline

SUBMITTER: Joselyn AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853427 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature