Enhancing Surgical Outcomes: Evaluating the Impact of Implementing the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist—A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Background Globally, surgical care plays a vital role in health care. Unfortunately, complications arise in approximately 5 to 18% of surgical procedures. However, research has shown that following the surgical safety checklist provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) can significantly reduce these complications and surgery-related fatalities. The objective of this study was to assess the accuracy and completion of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

Keywords

• surgical safety checklist
• surgical complications
• sign in
• time out
• sign out