Is team-based perception of safety in the operating room associated with self-reported wrong-site surgery? An exploratory cross-sectional survey among physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Participation in wrong-site surgery may negatively influence the perception of safety by the health care professionals in the operating room (OR). The objective was to explore if perception of safety in the OR was seen as a team-based or individualist concern and whether having participated in wrong-site surgery was associated with perception of safety.

Method and results

Cross-sectional survey at 2 annual meetings of surgery, in Switzerland, 2010. We used multivariate generalized models to assess the association of perception of safety in the OR (1 item) with self-reported participation in wrong-site surgery-overall, past (more than 3 y ago), or recent (last 3 y) participations-controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and opinion of the surgical safety checklis

SUBMITTER: Cullati S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6266346 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature