Safety Improvement and Checklist Application (SICA)

Regional Hospital of Bolzano

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Outcome; Complications

Treatments: Procedure: implementation surgical checklist

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01343069

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The study investigates the impact of the introduction of a surgical checklist on the incidence of complications and mortality within 30 days after surgery in patients scheduled for elective non-cardiac surgery. Patients scheduled for elective surgical procedures lasting longer than 20 minutes at are eligible. Surgery is performed in a single tertiary care center. Study design is an open trial before and after intervention (implementation of the checklist "safe surgery saves lifes").

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• elective surgery in general or regional anesthesia lasting > 15 min

Exclusion criteria

• urgent surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

before surgical checklist

No Intervention group

after implementation surgical checklist

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: implementation surgical checklist