EVALUATING COMPLIANCE TO WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SURGICAL SAFETY CHECK LIST IN OPERATING ROOM

Abstract

Background: The Surgical safety check list is an inexpensive tool capable ofshifting the hierarchical culture in the operating room and fostering patient safety attitudesAim of the study:The present study aimed to: 1) Evaluate compliance to World HealthOrganization surgical safety check list in operating room in selected setting, 2) Todetermine barriers of compliance to World Health Organization surgical safety check list(WHO SSC) in selected hospital. Method:Descriptive Comparative design was utilized toattain the aim of the present study. Sample: Convenience sample from all available healthcare workers in operating room including 107 surgeons, 51 anesthesiologists and 120nurses. Was collected with using tool consisted of two tools: Tool I: Part 1) Demographiccharacteristics, Part II)Barriers of compliance to world health organization Surgical SafetyChecklist.Tool II: Compliance to world health organization surgical safety check list.Reliability:The reliability test was made by Cranach Alfa = 0.818for clarify andapplicability. Results: Thestudy revealed that, there were statistically significantdifferences regarding sign in for both nurses and anesthetists. Also, a strong statisticallysignificant difference was found regarding total score of both sign in and time out in twohospitals. Mostly (83.3%) of the health care workers reported that lack of training aboutSSC is the greatest barrier found.Conclusion:Majority of the health care workers reportedthat lack of training about Surgical Safety Check list was the greatest barrier found, Therewas no statistically significant difference between the two hospitals as regard complianceto world health organization surgical safety in “time out “ and sign out .Recommendations: applying surgical safety check list in operating room includingsurgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses.