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Implementing the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist: A Model for Future Perioperative Initiatives
Author(s) -
Styer Kristin Alt,
Ashley Stanley W.,
Schmidt Ilona,
Zive Elaine M.,
Eappen Sunil
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/j.aorn.2011.03.012
Subject(s) - checklist , perioperative , patient safety , quality (philosophy) , medicine , perioperative nursing , nursing , operations management , health care , psychology , engineering , political science , surgery , philosophy , epistemology , law , cognitive psychology
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, conducted a two‐week trial of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist in the main OR. The checklist was incorporated by using a Plan‐Do‐Study‐Act cycle. In 2009, we began a 14‐week rollout of the surgical safety checklist to all our ORs. Critical factors that led to the success of this implementation included gaining executive leadership endorsement; recruiting volunteers from each discipline to lead the project; using quality methodologies to ensure a thoughtful, organizing implementation; providing frequent feedback and data; and confirming standardized use of the checklist by creating a policy.