A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population

By Alex B. Haynes, T. Weiser, William R. Berry, Stuart R. Lipsitz, A. Breizat, E. Dellinger, T. Herbosa, S. Joseph, P. Kibatala, M. C. Lapitan and 5 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2009

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• Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults (2015, positive): “place before the induction of anaesthesia, and this should be discussed at the team brief and the sign-in (pre-induction) phase of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.(23) 24 Assessment of the risk of aspiration is a key component of planning airwaymanagement.”
• The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fourth edition (2016, methodology): “33 34 The implementation of our recommendations might be facilitated by a checklist approach 35 analogous to the Safe Surgery Initiative [675], which led to fewer postoperative complications 36 The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: Fourth edition R”
• Social-Psychological Interventions in Education (2011, background): “An evaluation of this simple intervention found that it reduced surgical complications by 36% and deaths by 47% (Haynes et al., 2009).”
• Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment (2014, background): “For example, Haynes et al. (2009) find that introducing a 19-item surgical safety checklist in eight hospitals reduced the rate of death in the 30 days following noncardiac surgery from 1.5% before the checklist was introduced to 0.8% afterward, and more general inpatient complications from 33.”
• Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update (2014, methodology): “A multicenter quasi-experimental study conducted in 8 countries demonstrated that use of the WHO checklist led to lower rates of surgical complications, including SSI and death.(121) c.”
• Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States (2011, neutral): “The emerging applied health services literature on the efficacy of compelling all levels of the clinical hierarchy to fill out short procedural lists in the intensive care unit testifies to the importance of the introduction of deceptively simple bureaucratic protocols (Haynes et al. 2009).”
• 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Developed in collaboration with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesi (2011, background): “Observational analyses in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery have shown a significant reduction in perioperative death with the use of checklists, multidisciplinary surgical care, intraoperative time-outs, postsurgical debriefings, and other communication strategies (14,15).”