Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Our institution employs a Surgical Universal Protocol Preoperative Checklist in accordance with World Health Organization guidelines to promote patient safety. It is used in part to evaluate orthopaedic surgical equipment and implant readiness prior to the initiation of each surgical case. Our goal is to measure the preoperative checklist's efficacy in assessing orthopaedic equipment readiness preoperatively and its ability to prevent orthopaedic equipment failures (OEF). Our study focused on orthopaedic surgery cases as they require a large volume of equipment and implants for successful completion. These cases therefore present an appropriate medium to identify potential weakness in our institution's current surgical safety checklist (SSC). ⋯ Level IV.