Checklist as Hub: How Medical Checklists Connect Professional Routines

Kuiper, Marlot

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“…Use of surgical safety checklist have demonstrated significant positive effects in patient care including timely antibiotic administration and appropriate prevention of hypothermia [48] . In the US, it has been reported that appropriate implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist may have significant contribution in reducing healthcare related costs by preventing major surgical complications at virtually negligible costs [71] . Its success in this field also prompted other specialties to devise their own safety checklists, including paediatric surgery [15,16,72] .…”

Section: Safety Checklist Consists Of Three Partsmentioning

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“…Medical error is defined as 'an act of omission or commission in planning or execution that contributes or could contribute to an unintended result 74 . These errors could either be due to not taking a required action (omission) or taking a wrong action (commission).…”

Section: Definition Of Medical Error and Adverse Eventmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A medical error poses a risk towards reducing patient safety by increasing the risk of occurrence of an adverse event, however, not all medical errors result in patient harm. An adverse event is defined as 'unintended physical injury resulting from or contributed to by medical care that requires additional monitoring, treatment or hospitalization, or that results in death' [74] .…”

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Impact of checklists on inpatient safety: A review of recent literature

Wani,

Kaur,

Chew

et al. 2023

Int. J. Appl. Res.

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Background: Increase in public education and demands for patient-centred care prompt further research into transparent, organized and, above all, safe medical care. The checklist appears capable in theory to resolve some of the issues of patient safety, however its relevance and value in current practice has been questioned and adoption remains low among medical communities worldwide. Objective: to conduct a systematic review of articles of the current effect of checklists on patient safety in terms of improving patient outcomes and reducing medical errors in the inpatient setting. Methods: Search was conducted using Google Scholar with no language or study design restrictions and included keywords 'checklist', 'impact' and 'patient safety'. Publications before January 2016 were excluded to more closely reflect its impact in current medical practice. Only studies on quantitative measures of impact were included. Case reports, editorials, letters, commentaries, reviews, overviews and conference abstracts were excluded. Studies with checklists employed as part of a 'bundle', impact assessed in a simulated setting, involved outpatient setting were excluded. Titles that obviously did not match the review's aim were also excluded. Main Results: 114 articles were identified, of which 19 satisfied the eligibility criteria. Articles evaluated checklist impact in terms of patient outcomes (mortality, adverse events, length of hospital stay) and staff adherence to standard guidelines. Studies reported mixed results of checklist impact in patient related outcomes, however uniformly found statistically significant improvements in staff adherence (mean number of items completed 8.7 (SD=1.5) without checklist to 10.9 (SD=1.1) items with checklist out of 12 items, p<0.0001). Several studies also reported significant effects when completed checklists are compared with patient related outcomes (20.0% when checklist not completed vs 11.3% when checklist completed, p=0.026). Conclusion:The studies concluded a possible contribution of the checklist in patient-related outcomes, with much inconsistency in findings among different studies. The few articles reporting on staff adherence however provided significant uniform improvement following checklist implementation. There is a need for more high-quality quantitative studies to effectively conclude its impact in patient safety. As for now, the checklist remains relevant and should be applied at a broader scale, with research priority on checklist design and quality indicators to be included.

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Section: Safety Checklist Consists Of Three Partsmentioning

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Section: Definition Of Medical Error and Adverse Eventmentioning

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Impact of checklists on inpatient safety: A review of recent literature

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Kaur,

Chew

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Int. J. Appl. Res.

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“…Because of tight schedules, the reform often demanded professionals to work on two different tasks literally at the same time. We identified three strategies professionals developed to cope with such incompatible demands (Kuiper 2018). A first coping strategy is to accept, in which professionals try the best they can to unite NPM and NPG demands.…”

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Changed Roles and Strategies of Professionals in the (co)Production of Public Services

Gestel

Kuiper

Hendrikx

2019

Administrative Sciences

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This paper investigates the changed roles and strategies of professionals in a context of hybrid welfare state reform. This context exposes public professionals to market regulation and rationalization (new public management), and simultaneously expects them to work across professional borders to co-produce public services together with their clients, colleagues and other stakeholders (new public governance). Adopting a comparative perspective, we studied different types of professionals for their views on the implications of this reform mix on their work. Hence, we investigate ‘strategy’ at the macro level of public sector reform and at the micro level of professionals’ responses. The study is based on literature and policy documents, participatory observations and especially (group) interviews with professionals across Dutch hospitals, secondary schools and local agencies for welfare, care or housing. We found that professionals across these sectors, despite their different backgrounds and status, meet highly similar challenges and tensions related to welfare state reform. Moreover, we show that these professionals are not simply passive ‘victims’ of the hybrid context of professionalism, but develop own coping strategies to deal with tensions between different reform principles. The study contributes to understanding new professional roles and coping strategies in welfare state reform, in a context of changing relationships between professions and society.

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Checklist as Hub: How Medical Checklists Connect Professional Routines

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Impact of checklists on inpatient safety: A review of recent literature

Impact of checklists on inpatient safety: A review of recent literature

Changed Roles and Strategies of Professionals in the (co)Production of Public Services

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