TY - JOUR
T1 - UC Care Check-A Postoperative Neurosurgery Operating Room Checklist
T2 - An Interrupted Time Series Study
AU - Lau, Catherine Y.
AU - Seymann, Gregory
AU - Imershein, Sarah
AU - Amin, Alpesh
AU - Afsarmanesh, Nasim
AU - Uppington, Jeffrey
AU - Aledia, Anna
AU - Pretanvil, Sarah
AU - Wilson, Bridget
AU - Wong, Josefina
AU - Varma, Jennifer
AU - Boggan, James
AU - Hsu, Frank P.K.
AU - Carter, Bob
AU - Berger, Mitchel
AU - Harrison, James D.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of neurosurgical operating room (OR) checklists to improve communication, safety attitudes, and clinical outcomes is uncertain. PURPOSE: To develop, implement, and evaluate a post-operative neurosurgery operating room checklist. METHODS: Four large academic medical centers participated in this study. We developed an evidence-based checklist to be performed at the end of every adult-planned or emergent surgery in which all team members pause to discuss key elements of the case. We used a prospective interrupted time series study design to assess trends in clinical and cost outcomes. Safety attitudes and communication among OR providers were also assessed. RESULTS: There were 11,447 neurosurgical patients in the preintervention and 10,973 in the postintervention periods. After implementation, survey respondents perceived that postoperative checklists were regularly performed, important issues were communicated at the end of each case, and patient safety was consistently reinforced. Observed to expected (O/E) overall mortality rates remained less than one, and 30-day readmission rate, length of stay index, direct cost index, and perioperative venous thromboembolism and hematoma rates remained unchanged as a result of checklist implementation. CONCLUSION: A neurosurgical checklist can improve OR team communication; however, improvements in safety attitudes, clinical outcomes, and health system costs were not observed.
AB - BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of neurosurgical operating room (OR) checklists to improve communication, safety attitudes, and clinical outcomes is uncertain. PURPOSE: To develop, implement, and evaluate a post-operative neurosurgery operating room checklist. METHODS: Four large academic medical centers participated in this study. We developed an evidence-based checklist to be performed at the end of every adult-planned or emergent surgery in which all team members pause to discuss key elements of the case. We used a prospective interrupted time series study design to assess trends in clinical and cost outcomes. Safety attitudes and communication among OR providers were also assessed. RESULTS: There were 11,447 neurosurgical patients in the preintervention and 10,973 in the postintervention periods. After implementation, survey respondents perceived that postoperative checklists were regularly performed, important issues were communicated at the end of each case, and patient safety was consistently reinforced. Observed to expected (O/E) overall mortality rates remained less than one, and 30-day readmission rate, length of stay index, direct cost index, and perioperative venous thromboembolism and hematoma rates remained unchanged as a result of checklist implementation. CONCLUSION: A neurosurgical checklist can improve OR team communication; however, improvements in safety attitudes, clinical outcomes, and health system costs were not observed.
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U2 - 10.1097/JHQ.0000000000000246
DO - 10.1097/JHQ.0000000000000246
M3 - Article
C2 - 31977363
AN - SCOPUS:85087473502
VL - 42
SP - 224
EP - 235
JO - Journal of quality assurance : a publication of the National Association of Quality Assurance Professionals
JF - Journal of quality assurance : a publication of the National Association of Quality Assurance Professionals
SN - 1062-2551
IS - 4
ER -