Development and validation of patients' surgical safety checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poor uptake and understanding of critical perioperative information represent a major safety risk for surgical patients. Implementing a patient-driven surgical safety checklist might enhance the way critical information is given and increase patient involvement in their own safety throughout the surgical pathway. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a Surgical Patient Safety Checklist (PASC) for use by surgical patients.

Method

This was a prospective study, involving patient representatives, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and elective surgical patients to develop and validate PASC using consensus-building techniques in two Norwegian hospitals. A set of items intended for PASC were rated by patients and then submitted to Content Validation

SUBMITTER: Harris K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8873354 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature