title: Implementing the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist: a model for future perioperative initiatives.
abstract: 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.
authors: Perioperative and Surgical Inpatient Nursing, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
authors: Kristin Alt
authors: KA
authors: Styer
authors: Stanley W
authors: SW
authors: Ashley
authors: Ilona
authors: I
authors: Schmidt
authors: Elaine M
authors: EM
authors: Zive
authors: Sunil
authors: S
authors: Eappen
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D007318:Inservice Training; D007857:Leadership; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012449:Safety; D014944:World Health Organization