What is the role of checklists beyond the surgical time out in ensuring patient safety?

Best practices suggest that the time out be led by the physician responsible for performing the procedure with active involvement by all members of the team ... Organisation Surgical Safety Checklist in Australia: · A Prospective Observational Study. The IAEA developed a leaflet entitled Check, Review · and Report to ... Prominent reminders to comply with The Joint Commission Universal Protocol for prevention of wrong-site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery. Jun 7, 2022 ... By executing a timeout before and after the planned procedure, one can significantly decrease the number of wrong site surgeries and retained foreign bodies. Apr 26, 2021 ... Abstract. Surgical time-outs are designed to promote situation awareness, teamwork, and error prevention. The pre-incision time-out in ... Feb 5, 2025 ... In this study we explore how surgical teams' attitudes towards the usefulness of the time-out affect its utilization. Sep 1, 2016 ... Communication among the members of a surgical team, represented by the time-out feature of a checklist, is itself an ethically significant ... Jun 12, 2019 ... In 2004, the Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and The Joint Commission created National Time Out Day to help surgical teams remember the ... Our Surgical Safety Checklists highlight the important steps that must be taken to prevent wrong side, wrong site, wrong patient and wrong procedures. Feb 5, 2025 ... Background The surgical time-out is a critical safety measure used in the operating room (OR). We examined the mediating relationship of the ...