Abstract
It has been 10 years since the implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist [1]. Adverse events in the operating theatre are a global issue and half of them are often avoidable..
Highlights
The World Health Organization (WHO) checklist was developed with an aim to improve the patient safety outcomes in the operating theatre
The WHO checklist was pilot tested in a global cohort of 3995 patients in eight countries and showed a reduction of mortality from 1.5% to 0.8% and post- surgical complications from 11% to 7% with the introduction of the checklist [3]
A recent study in Scotland by Ramsay et al. [6] attributes the significant reduction of 36.6% in their mortality rate from 2000 to 2014 to the effective implementation of the checklist
Summary
It has been 10 years since the implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist [1]. Adverse events in the operating theatre are a global issue and half of them are often avoidable [2]. The impact of adverse events on the individual patient and family as well as the healthcare professional could be devastating.
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