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. 2022 Dec 1;18(8):e1150-e1159.
doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000001035. Epub 2022 Jun 9.

Factors Causing Variation in World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist Effectiveness-A Rapid Scoping Review

Mudassir M Wani, John H V Gilbert, Ciraj Ali Mohammed  1 , Sanjeev Madaan  2
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Factors Causing Variation in World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist Effectiveness-A Rapid Scoping Review

Mudassir M Wani et al. J Patient Saf. .

Abstract

Introduction: This review was conducted to determine what factors might be responsible for prejudicing the outcomes after the implementation of a World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist (WHO SSC), grouping them appropriately and proposing strategies that enable the SSC a more helpful and productive tool in the operating room.

Methods: It was a rapid scoping review conducted as per Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses extension guidelines for scoping reviews (PRISMA-Scr). Comprehensive search on MEDLINE and Embase was carried out, to include all relevant studies published during last 5 years. Twenty-seven studies were included in analysis. The barriers to SSC implementation were classified into 5 main groups, with further subdivisions in each.

Results: The results of review revealed that there are 5 major barriers to SSC at the following levels: organizational, checklist, individual, technical, and implementation. Each of these major barriers, on further evaluation, was found to have more than one contributing factors. All these factors were analyzed individually.

Conclusions: This rapid scoping review has consolidated data, which may pave the way for experts to further examine steps that might be taken locally or globally in order that the WHO SSC to successfully achieve all its desired goals.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors disclose no conflict of interest.

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