Articles: checklist.
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In recent years there has been a significant increase of surgical procedures worldwide. Perioperative complication occurred in approximately 10 %, mortality was about 0.5 %. Half of these adverse events were considered to have been preventable. With the introduction of a perioperative checklist by the WHO in 2008, a significant reduction of morbidity and mortality could be achieved. The aim of this study was to investigate the success of the implementation process of the checklist at a maximum care hospital over a three-year period and to expose and analyse any occurring issues. ⋯ Within the study we could demonstrate the difficulties of introducing a surgical checklist at a maximum care hospital. Therefore involved nursing or medical staff must be aware of the usefulness of the checklist and should be motivated to use it. In addition, periodical lectures, training courses and role modelling of nursing and medical staff are required. The objective must be to establish the checklist into daily routine as it is a simple and efficient tool to reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality.
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For any health intervention, accurate knowledge of both benefits and harms is needed. Systematic reviews often compound poor reporting of harms in primary studies by failing to report harms or doing so inadequately. While the PRISMA statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) helps systematic review authors ensure complete and transparent reporting, it is focused mainly on efficacy. Thus, a PRISMA harms checklist has been developed to improve harms reporting in systematic reviews, promoting a more balanced assessment of benefits and harms. ⋯ The PRISMA harms checklist identifies a minimal set of items to be reported when reviewing adverse events. This guideline extension is intended to improve harms reporting in systematic reviews, whether harms are a primary or secondary outcome.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2016
Checklist as a Memory Externalization Tool during a Critical Care Process.
We analyzed user interactions with a paper-based checklist in a regional trauma center to inform the design of digital cognitive aids for safety-critical medical teamwork. An initial review of paper checklists from actual trauma resuscitations revealed that trauma team leaders frequently wrote notes on the checklist. To understand this notetaking practice, we performed content analysis of 163 checklists collected over the period of four months. ⋯ An analysis of types and amount of notes written by leaders of different experience levels showed that more experienced leaders recorded more patient values and physical findings, while less experienced leaders recorded more notes about their activities and task completion status. These findings suggested that a checklist designed for a high-risk, fast-paced medical event has evolved into a dual function tool, serving both as a compliance and memory aid. Based on these findings, we derived requirements for designing digital cognitive aids to support safety-critical medical teamwork.