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Point Prevalence of Surgical Checklist Use in Europe: Relationship with Hospital Mortality

2015-05Journal article Open access
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Jammer, I
Ahmad, T
Aldecoa, C
Koulenti, D
Goranović, T
Grigoras, I
Mazul-Sunko, B
Matos, R
Moreno, R
Sigurdsson, GH

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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of use of the World Health Organization surgical checklist is unknown. The clinical effectiveness of this intervention in improving postoperative outcomes is debated. METHODS: We undertook a retrospective analysis of data describing surgical checklist use from a 7 day cohort study of surgical outcomes in 28 European nations (European Surgical Outcomes Study, EuSOS). The analysis included hospitals recruiting >10 patients and excluding outlier hospitals above the 95th centile for mortality. Multivariate logistic regression and three-level hierarchical generalized mixed models were constructed to explore the relationship between surgical checklist use and hospital mortality. Findings are presented as crude and adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). RESULTS: A total of 45 591 patients from 426 hospitals were included in the analysis. A surgical checklist was used in 67.5% patients, with marked variation across countries (0-99.6% of patients). Surgical checklist exposure was associated with lower crude hospital mortality (OR 0.84, CI 0.75-0.94; P=0.002). This effect remained after adjustment for baseline risk factors in a multivariate model (adjusted OR 0.81, CI 0.70-0.94; P<0.005) and strengthened after adjusting for variations within countries and hospitals in a three-level generalized mixed model (adjusted OR 0.71, CI 0.58-0.85; P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The use of surgical checklists varies across European nations. Reported use of a checklist was associated with lower mortality. This observation may represent a protective effect of the surgical checklist itself, or alternatively, may be an indirect indicator of the quality of perioperative care.

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Checklist Cohort Studies Europe Female Hospitals Humans Length of Stay Male Odds Ratio Outcome Assessment (Health Care) Prevalence Retrospective Studies Risk Factors Surgical Procedures, Operative World Health Organization Hospital Mortality HSJ UCI

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.17/2729

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Br J Anaesth. 2015 May;114(5):801-7

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Oxford University Press

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10.1093/bja/aeu460

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