• J Eval Clin Pract · Dec 2023

    A retrospective analysis of the factors associated with surgical checklist compliance using data from a local health unit in Italy, 2018-2021.

    • Nicole Rossi, Luca Golinelli, Federica Bersani, and Marco Geraci.
    • School of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
    • J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Dec 1; 29 (8): 137213791372-1379.

    RationaleSince its publication, the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has been progressively adopted by healthcare providers around the world to monitor and safeguard the delivery of surgeries. In one Italian region's health system, the SSC and other two surgery-specific checklists were supplemented by a document that records any non-conformity (NC) arising from the safety checks.Aims And ObjectivesIn this study, we investigated the factors associated with NCs using data from a local health unit (LHU). The secondary aim of this study was to explore the potential impact of the coronavirus crisis on surgical checklist compliance.MethodsWe used data on surgical activity from the Modena LHU between 2018 and 2021 and the accompanying NC documents. The primary goal was to estimate the relative risk (RR) of NCs according to several factors, including checklist incompleteness and surgery class (elective, urgent or emergency), using Poisson regression. A similar analysis was performed separately for 2018-2019 and 2020-2021 to assess the COVID-19 potential impact.Results And ConclusionsChecklist compliance in the LHU was 95%, with the presence of NCs in about 7% of surgeries. The factors that increased the RR were incompleteness of the checklist (adjusted RR = 3.12; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.86-3.40), urgent surgeries (adjusted RR [aRR] = 1.59; 95% CI = 1.47-1.72), emergencies (aRR = 2.09; 95% CI = 1.15-3.79), and surgeries with more than four procedures (aRR = 1.64; 95% CI = 1.41-1.92). Most notably, the RR for incomplete checklists showed a negative association with NCs before the COVID-19 outbreak but positive afterwards. Checklist compliance was overall satisfactory, though the observation of noncompliant checklists of about 1000 per year suggests there is still room for improvement. Moreover, attention to the checklist best practices and organization of outpatient workload may have been affected by the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic.© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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