title: [Are the measures to ensure patient safety in surgery evidence-based?].
abstract: Errors occurring in surgical procedures often have serious consequences for the patients. For this reason various measures have been designed over the past few years to ensure a greater level of patient safety in surgery. One such measure is the implementation of the WHO safety checklist in German hospitals. The benefits of this checklist on postoperative complications have been substantiated by evidence from EbM level II studies and meta-analyses. The application of further tools such as the systematic rating of hospitals in terms of defined operative procedures would appear theoretically rational, but has not been demonstrated by studies with a higher level of evidence.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Chirurgie, Abteilung für Allgemeine Chirurgie, Viszeral-, Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Deutschland.
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Beyer
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Chirurgie, Abteilung für Allgemeine Chirurgie, Viszeral-, Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Deutschland. Electronic address: heidecke@uni-greifswald.de.
authors.forename: Claus-Dieter
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Heidecke
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000592:standards*; D014944:World Health Organization
keywords: Evidenz-basierte Medizin; Patient safety; Patientensicherheit; WHO Checkliste; WHO checklist; evidence-based medicine