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Correct Patient in NSW
Correct Patient in NSW
Incidents resulting from wrong patient, wrong procedure, wrong site and the use of wrong implants are often devastating to the patient, their family and to the staff involved.
In 2008, the NSW Dept of Health Correct site (Correct Patient, Correct Procedure and Correct Site policy directive PD2007_079.) was reviewed and released with new safety toolkits for surgical services with New Safety toolkits for surgical services, radiology, nuclear medicine, radiation oncology and dental areas.
NEW Article from the MJA
Surgery has become an integral part of global health care, with an estimated 234 million operations performed yearly. Surgical complications are common and often preventable. We hypothesized that a program to implement a 19-item surgical safety checklist designed to improve team communication and consistency of care would reduce complications and deaths associated with surgery.
The rate of death was 1.5% before the checklist was introduced and declined to 0.8% afterward (P=0.003). Inpatient complications occurred in 11.0% of patients at baseline and in 7.0% after introduction of the checklist (P<0.001).
Implementation of the checklist was associated with concomitant reductions in the rates of death and complications among patients at least 16 years of age who were undergoing noncardiac surgery in a diverse group of hospitals.
