Articles: checklist.
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Bmc Health Serv Res · May 2015
Gaps in continuity of care: patients' perceptions of the quality of care during labor ward handover in Mulago hospital, Uganda.
Client satisfaction is a common outcome measure for quality of care and goal for quality improvement in healthcare. We assessed women's perceptions of the structure, process and outcome of intrapartum care in Mulago hospital, specifically, labor ward duty shift handovers. ⋯ The handover process and practices should be standardized using protocols and checklists. Health workers need training on handover practices, team work and communication skills (so as to improve patient-health provider and provider-provider interaction.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Effect of the World Health Organization checklist on patient outcomes: a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial.
Implementing the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist may reduce morbidity, length of stay and mortality, although many questions remain.
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J Infect Public Health · May 2015
ReviewUse of the surgical safety checklist to improve communication and reduce complications.
Existing evidence suggests that communication failures are common in the operating room, and that they lead to increased complications, including infections. Use of a surgical safety checklist may prevent communication failures and reduce complications. ⋯ A growing body of literature points out that while the physical act of "checking the box" may not necessarily prevent all adverse events, the checklist is a scaffold on which attitudes toward teamwork and communication can be encouraged and improved. Recent evidence reinforces the fact the compliance with the checklist is critical for the effects on patient safety to be realized.
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The prevalence of use of the World Health Organization surgical checklist is unknown. The clinical effectiveness of this intervention in improving postoperative outcomes is debated. ⋯ The European Surgical Outcomes Study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01203605.
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To describe the tools (audit procedure and Checklist) designed to ensure the correct implementation of the Ebola Virus Disease Guidelines in a hospital emergency department. ⋯ This approach ensures that Ebola Guidelines were applied, with greater guarantees for patients and hospital professionals.