Introduction of the Surgical Safety Checklist

Postoperative Complications Clinical Trial

Official title:

Patient Safety: Introduction of the Surgical Safety Checklist and Patient Outcome Assessment in an Academic Ambulatory Hospital

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00934310
• Other study ID #: 2009-0017-E
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 6, 2009
• Last updated: October 3, 2017
• Start date: May 2009
• Est. completion date: April 2012

Study information

• Verified date: October 2017
• Source: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

In January of 2007, the World Health Organization's (WHO) World Alliance for Patient Safety initiated a project called "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" to identify minimum standards of surgical care that can be universally applied across countries and settings. Through a two year process involving international input from surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists and others, the WHO created a surgical safety checklist that encompasses a simple set of surgical safety standards that can be used in any surgical setting. Each safety step on the checklist is simple, widely applicable, and measurable. The Surgical Safety Checklist was piloted in 8 hospitals around the world and results demonstrated a significant decrease in death rate and postoperative complications.

This study proposes to introduce an adaptation of the Surgical Safety Checklist for an ambulatory care surgical program and to assess the efficacy of its adaptation and implementation on staff safety attitudes and patient outcomes. Specific ambulatory-based items will be included in the checklist and patient outcomes will be assessed using the Institute for Health Improvement's Perioperative Surgical Outcomes Tool which will also be adapted for use for the ambulatory setting as well as routine follow up phone calls with patients on the 1st postoperative day.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1000
• Est. completion date: April 2012
• Est. primary completion date: January 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• ambulatory surgical patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• in-patient or any patient who is planning to be admitted to hospital postoperatively

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Postoperative Complications

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Women's College Hospital	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Women's College Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The primary outcomes of this study are to determine if there are significant differences in (a) staff safety attitudes and (b) incidence of postoperative complications before and after implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist		Before and after implementation of checklist
Primary	The primary outcomes of this study are to determine if there are significant differences in (a) staff safety attitudes and (b) incidence of postoperative complications before and after implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist		Before and after implementation of the safety checklist

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