Department of Orthopedics, Traumatology and Sports Medicine, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, Warsaw, Poland.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Mazovia, Warsaw, Poland.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021;1335:53-62. doi: 10.1007/5584_2021_631.
The medical treatment process, particularly surgery, is inescapably bound to potential complications or undesirable adverse events. This narrative review aims to present the causes and effects of the introduction of the WHO Surgery Safety Checklist (SSC), the use of which is expected to reduce the number of perioperative errors, complications, and mortality. To achieve this objective, we performed a bibliometric analysis of medical citations indexed in the PubMed database using the SSC subject heading. Findings revealed a total of 1441 articles meeting inclusion status, with 1171 published during the last decade. After the screening of titles and abstracts, the members of the research team selected 75 articles, deemed most relevant for inclusion in the review, which were then thoroughly analyzed. All in all, the findings were that the use of SSC appreciably reduced the number of simple logistic errors in the perioperative period decreasing the frequency of resulting complications and mortality.
医疗过程，特别是手术，不可避免地会存在潜在的并发症或不良的意外事件。本叙述性综述旨在介绍世界卫生组织手术安全检查表（SSC）引入的原因和影响，预期使用 SSC 可减少围手术期错误、并发症和死亡率。为了实现这一目标，我们使用 SSC 主题词对 PubMed 数据库中索引的医学引文进行了文献计量分析。结果共发现符合纳入标准的 1441 篇文章，其中 1171 篇发表在过去十年。经过标题和摘要的筛选，研究团队成员选择了 75 篇被认为最相关的文章纳入综述，并进行了深入分析。总的来说，研究结果表明，使用 SSC 显著减少了围手术期简单的物流错误数量，降低了由此产生的并发症和死亡率的发生频率。
