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Revista Colombiana de Cirugía
Print version ISSN 2011-7582
Abstract
RAMIREZ, Claudia Marcela; PRADA, William Andrés; GUAYAN, Ingrid Carolina and PATINO, Marilse. Use of check lists in scheduled surgery, Bogotá, 2016. rev. colomb. cir. [online]. 2017, vol.32, n.2, pp.109-114. ISSN 2011-7582. https://doi.org/10.30944/20117582.14.
In the year 2008 the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed how checklists reduce mortality from 1.5 to 0.8%, and that it is also a tool for the prevention of perioperative adverse events. In spite, there are no reports of the utilization of the checklists in scheduled surgery in our country. Objective: To characterize the utilization of checklists in programmed surgery within the quality of care routines in surgical patients at three hospitals in Bogotá, Colombia, during the year 2016. Materials and methods: This is a quantitative, observational, descriptive cross-sectional study. We performed a univariate analysis with frequency tables for dichotomous variables, and a bi-varied analysis with the χ2 and Fisher's exact tests. Results: Utilization of 75.5% of the check list in the operating room was found. Bi-varied analysis determined a statistically significant difference (p<0.001), by applying the χ2 test for the general surgery and orthopedic specialties. There was a statistically significant difference between the auxiliary nursing staff and the resident in the surgical team (p<0.001) in the utilization of checklists. Conclusions: The checklist is carried out in Bogotá with a prevalence of 75.5%, similar to that of the world literature, and it is performed mainly by the surgical nursing staff in 61% of cases.
Keywords : Quality assurance; health care; patient safety; ambulatory surgical procedures; general surgery.