Perioperative Safety: Engage, Integrate, Empower, Sustain to Eliminate Patient Safety Events.

ABSTRACT: The perioperative environment is one of the most complex areas within a hospital with significant safety risks. Despite a long history of safety-focused work, a recent cluster of patient safety events prompted a renewed comprehensive approach to improve safety processes and transform culture.

Methods

Our team comprehensively approached perioperative safety through integration across traditional silos and a focus on institutional safety culture. This approach consisted of a careful review of all events, developing Perioperative Safety Coordinating and Education teams, testing and implementing new/revised safety processes, and an ongoing evaluation plan.

Results

Updates to our Perioperative Safety Mission and Tenets and the development of an empowered Safety Culture Champion te

SUBMITTER: Falcone RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8677994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature