Effect of Adherence to the World Health Organization Surgical Safety
Original Article ISSN (O):2395-2822; ISSN (P):2395-2814 Section: Effect of Adherence to the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist on Morbidity and Mortality in a Surgery Defined Surgical Patient Population Sumit Kabra1, Santanu Sinha2, Soumen Das3, Radha Raman Mondal4 1Senior Resident, Department of Urology, Centre for Advanced Urology and Kidney Diseases, Sanjevani Hospital, Guwahati, India 2Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata – 700020 3Consultant Surgeon, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Hospital, 3081, Nayabad Ave, New Garia, Pancha Sayar, Kolkata- 700094. 4M.S. Resident, Department of General Surgery, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata – 700020 Received: May 2019 Accepted: May 2019 Copyright: © the author(s), publisher. It is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Background: To improve patient safety and prevent complications, WHO introduced surgical safety checklist (WHO SSC). However, the actual effect of WHO SSC on patient morbidity, particularly surgical site infections (SSI), and mortality on post-operative patients is one of the least studied area. Our study was to measure the effects surgical safety checklists have in reducing morbidities and complications, particularly surgical site infections, post-operative length of stay and mortality resulting from the surgical procedures. Methods: A prospective observational comparative study was conducted among all patients who underwent elective general surgical procedures from 01st July 2015 to 30th June 2016 in the Main OT Complex (OT1 and OT2), Indoor Surgical Wards and higher dependency units (ITU & CCU) of IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, after applying proper exclusion criteria.
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