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From box ticking to the black box: the evolution of operating room safety

Authors: Mitchell G. Goldenberg, Dean Elterman

Published in: World Journal of Urology | Issue 6/2020

Abstract

Purpose

Efforts to improve the safety of patients in the operating room have focused on mitigating harm through the standardization of system, team, and human level factors. This article highlights existing and future methods for enhancing safety in the perioperative setting, and the theory and principles that underpin them.

Methods

Evidence surrounding the development and implementation of select surgical safety interventions is discussed.

Results

Work in human factors and engineering that has inspired safety interventions such as the WHO Safety Checklist, and more recently operating room recorders, represents a movement away from traditional, retrospective or reactive methods of studying surgical safety, to prospective and proactive ones.

Conclusions

Future work will examine the effectiveness of these interventions for improving patient outcomes and minimizing iatrogenic harm.

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Title: From box ticking to the black box: the evolution of operating room safety
Authors: Mitchell G. Goldenberg
Dean Elterman
Publication date: 01-06-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: World Journal of Urology / Issue 6/2020
Print ISSN: 0724-4983
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8726
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-019-02886-5

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From box ticking to the black box: the evolution of operating room safety

Abstract

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusions

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Abstract

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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