Patients' and healthcare workers' recommendations for a surgical patient safety checklist - a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients' involvement in patient safety has increased in healthcare. Use of checklists may improve patient outcome in surgery, though few have attempted to engage patients' use of surgical checklist. To identify risk elements of complications based on patients' and healthcare workers' experiences is warranted. This study aims to identify what the patients and healthcare workers find to be the risk elements that should be included in a patient-driven surgical patient safety checklist.

Method

A qualitative study design where post-operative patients, surgeons, ward physicians, ward nurses, and secretaries from five surgical specialties took part in focus group interviews. Eleven focus groups were conducted including 25 post-operative patients and 27 healthcare worker

SUBMITTER: Harris K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6966861 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature