TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borgmann, Hendrik
A1  - Helbig, Sarah
A1  - Reiter, Michael A.
A1  - Hüsch, Tanja
A1  - Schilling, David
A1  - Tsaur, Igor
A1  - Haferkamp, Axel
T1  - Utilization of surgical safety checklists by urological surgeons in Germany : a nationwide prospective survey
T2  - Patient safety in surgery
N2  - Objectives: We aimed to investigate the contemporary usage rate and habits of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) in German urological departments.
Methods: We designed a 26-item questionnaire that was sent to all urological departments in Germany. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the usage rate of the SSC. Secondary aims were to compare perioperative characteristics of users vs. non-users of the SSC and to assess circumstances of the SSC application.
Results: A total of 213 of 234 (91 %) urological departments were users of the SSC, and 21 (9 %) were non-users. SSC users had more often a standard protocol, took less time and had fewer people involved for checking perioperative patient data compared to non-users. Financial budgeting for the SSC existed in 55 (24 %) departments and for patient safety in 73 (32 %) departments.
Conclusions: The usage rate of the SSC in urological departments in Germany is high despite restricted financial budgeting. Users of the SSC profit by saving time and manpower for checking perioperative patient data.
KW  - Patient safety
KW  - Communication
KW  - Quality management
KW  - Risk reduction
KW  - Urology
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38379
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-383791
SN  - 1754-9493
N1  - © 2015 Borgmann et al. Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 9
IS  - 37
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -