A Checklist Checkup: Interventions in Safety Culture Improve Adherence

Patient safety improvement interventions in children's surgery: A systematic review

“…Following the last search in January 2015, 20 studies [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] were identified for inclusion in the review (table 1).…”

“…The majority (70%) of included studies comprised peer-reviewed journal articles (n=14 [16][17][18][19][20][21]23,[25][26][27][28][33][34][35]) and the remainder represented peer-reviewed conference proceedings (published abstracts of oral presentations n=4 [22,[30][31][32] , posters n=2 [24,29]). …”

“…The majority (70%) of studies originated from US institutions (n=14 [16,17,20,22,23,25,27,28,[30][31][32][33][34][35]) with the remainder from the UK (n=2 [19,21]), Belgium (n=2 [26,29]), Canada (n=1 [18]) and Sweden (n=1 [24]). The inclusion criteria allowed studies published after 1980, however almost all (90%) were published within the last 5…”

“…years ( Critical care (n=9 [17][18][19][20][21][22]24,32]) was the most common setting for intervention deployment, followed by the operating room (n=5 [25,27,30,31,33]). …”

“…10 studies [16][17][18][19][20][21]23,26,31,32] were described as prospective pre/post-interventional clinical studies, 4 [29,[33][34][35] were described as prospective analyses, 2 [22,35] were described as a post-interventional clinical study and the remainder were described as;…”