title: Animation program used to encourage patients or family members to take an active role for eliminating wrong-site, wrong-person, wrong-procedure surgeries: preliminary evaluation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Wrong-site surgeries (including wrong-site, wrong-person and wrong-procedure errors) remain the number one problem among adverse events of health care delivery. Patients and/or family members should be involved when possible to help prevent such errors.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  1) Design an educational animation program about patient safety for patients and/or family members to help eliminate wrong-site surgery errors. 2) Evaluate its educational effect.
  
  
  METHODS
  The animation developed for this study includes an introduction, hypothetical story, and guided information, and was presented at a tertiary medical center in northern Taiwan. A single-group pretest and posttest design was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-six patients and 48 family members participated in the study. The pre-training score was 3.6 (on a scale of 1-4). After watching the animation, there was no significant increase (0.08 ± 0.5) for the patient group, but the family member group showed significant improvement (0.21 ± 0.6, P = .0309). Most participants (98.9%) were satisfied with the animation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The majority of participants reported good practices for avoiding wrong-site surgery mistakes before an operation. A significant improvement of post-training scores in the family member group was seen. The high satisfaction rating given by the participants after seeing the animation indicates that it was generally acceptable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Rd., Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan, ROC. lichu@mail.cgu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Lai-Chu
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: See
authors.forename: Yi-Hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Kai-Lan
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Chuang
authors.forename: Hui-Ru
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Pei-I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Wen-Chyi
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Jean
authors.forename: Chao-Hui
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010358:Patient Participation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D017751:Safety Management; D055815:Young Adult