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Abstract
Importance Compliance with the surgical safety checklist during operative procedures has been shown to reduce inhospital mortality and complications but proper execution by the surgical team remains elusive.
Objective We evaluated the impact of remote video auditing with real-time provider feedback on checklist compliance during sign-in, time-out and sign-out and case turnover times.
Design, setting Prospective, cluster randomised study in a 23-operating room (OR) suite.
Participants Surgeons, anaesthesia providers, nurses and support staff.
Exposure ORs were randomised to receive, or not receive, real-time feedback on safety checklist compliance and efficiency metrics via display boards and text messages, followed by a period during which all ORs received feedback.
Main outcome(s) and measure(s) Checklist compliance (Pass/Fail) during sign-in, time-out and sign-out demonstrated by (1) use of checklist, (2) team attentiveness, (3) required duration, (4) proper sequence and duration of case turnover times.
Results Sign-in, time-out and sign-out PASS rates increased from 25%, 16% and 32% during baseline phase (n=1886) to 64%, 84% and 68% for feedback ORs versus 40%, 77% and 51% for no-feedback ORs (p<0.004) during the intervention phase (n=2693). Pass rates were 91%, 95% and 84% during the all-feedback phase (n=2001). For scheduled cases (n=1406, 71%), feedback reduced mean turnover times by 14% (41.4 min vs 48.1 min, p<0.004), and the improvement was sustained during the all-feedback period. Feedback had no effect on turnover time for unscheduled cases (n=587, 29%).
Conclusions and relevance Our data indicate that remote video auditing with feedback improves surgical safety checklist compliance for all cases, and turnover time for scheduled cases, but not for unscheduled cases.
- Healthcare quality improvement
- Crew resource management
- Surgery
- Checklists
- Anaesthesia
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Contributors FJO, OD and JFD contributed substantially to the conception and design of the work, the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data, and the drafting of the manuscript. SBN, DG, MC, DA, BC and GSL contributed substantially to the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data. DS contributed substantially to the design of the work, the analysis and interpretation of data, and the drafting of the manuscript.
Funding Arrowsight Inc.
Competing interests None declared.
Ethics approval North Shore LIJ Health System IRB.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.