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Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
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The World Health Organization's Patient Safety Programme created an initiative to improve the safety of surgery around the world. In order to accomplish this goal the programme team developed a checklist with items that could and, if at all possible, should be practised in all settings where surgery takes place. There is little guidance in the literature regarding methods for creating a medical checklist. The airline industry, however, has more than 70 years of experience in developing and using checklists. The authors of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist drew lessons from the aviation experience to create a safety tool that supports essential clinical practice. In order to inform the methodology for development of future checklists in health care, we review how we applied lessons learned from the aviation experience in checklist development to the development of the Surgical Safety Checklist and also discuss the differences that exist between aviation and medicine that impact the use of checklists in health care.
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- Authors
- Weiser, T. G., Haynes, A. B., Lashoher, A., Dziekan, G., Boorman, D. J., Berry, W. R., & Gawande, A. A.
- Venue
- International Journal for Quality in Health Care
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-08-11
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 365-370
- ISSN
- 1353-4505 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3677
- OpenAlex
- W2137080312
- Cited by
- 293
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 31.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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