Improving surgical safety checklist utilisation at 23 public health facilities in Ethiopia: a collaborative quality improvement project.
Checklists
Continuous quality improvement
Patient safety
Surgery
Journal
BMJ open quality
ISSN: 2399-6641
Titre abrégé: BMJ Open Qual
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101710381
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2023
11 2023
Historique:
received:
10
05
2023
accepted:
25
09
2023
medline:
10
11
2023
pubmed:
9
11
2023
entrez:
8
11
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In 2009, the WHO introduced the surgical safety checklist (SSC) as one of the interventions for improving patient safety. The systematic use of structured checklists during surgery has been shown to reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality. However, SSC utilisation has been challenging in low-income and middle-income countries, including Ethiopia. Jhpiego Ethiopia implemented a quality improvement project (QIP) aimed to increase SSC utilisation. A model for improvement was used to design and implement a collaborative QIP to improve SSC utilisation at 23 public health facilities (13 primary health care facilities, 4 general hospitals and 6 tertiary hospitals) in Ethiopia from October 2020 to September 2021. SSC utilisation was defined as when a patient chart had SSC attached and each part of the checklist was completed. Training of surgical staff on safe surgery packages, monthly clinical mentorship and cluster-based learning platforms were implemented during the study period. We analysed bimonthly chart audit reports from each facility to assess the proportion of surgeries where the SSC was used. Shewhart charts were used to conduct a time-series analysis. Additionally, the Z-test for two sample proportions was used to determine if there is a statistically significant change from the baseline measure with a p<0.05. In the postintervention period, the overall SSC utilisation improved by 39.9 absolute percentage points to 90.3% (p<0.0001) compared with the baseline value of 50.4% early in 2020. A time-series analysis using Shewhart charts showed a shift in the mean performance and signals of special cause variation. The largest improvement was observed in primary health care facilities in which the SSC utilisation improved from 50.8% to 97.9% (p<0.0001). This study demonstrates that onsite clinical capacity building, mentorship and collaborative cluster-based learning platforms can improve SSC utilisation across all levels of facilities performing surgery.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
In 2009, the WHO introduced the surgical safety checklist (SSC) as one of the interventions for improving patient safety. The systematic use of structured checklists during surgery has been shown to reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality. However, SSC utilisation has been challenging in low-income and middle-income countries, including Ethiopia. Jhpiego Ethiopia implemented a quality improvement project (QIP) aimed to increase SSC utilisation.
METHODOLOGY
A model for improvement was used to design and implement a collaborative QIP to improve SSC utilisation at 23 public health facilities (13 primary health care facilities, 4 general hospitals and 6 tertiary hospitals) in Ethiopia from October 2020 to September 2021. SSC utilisation was defined as when a patient chart had SSC attached and each part of the checklist was completed. Training of surgical staff on safe surgery packages, monthly clinical mentorship and cluster-based learning platforms were implemented during the study period. We analysed bimonthly chart audit reports from each facility to assess the proportion of surgeries where the SSC was used. Shewhart charts were used to conduct a time-series analysis. Additionally, the Z-test for two sample proportions was used to determine if there is a statistically significant change from the baseline measure with a p<0.05.
RESULT
In the postintervention period, the overall SSC utilisation improved by 39.9 absolute percentage points to 90.3% (p<0.0001) compared with the baseline value of 50.4% early in 2020. A time-series analysis using Shewhart charts showed a shift in the mean performance and signals of special cause variation. The largest improvement was observed in primary health care facilities in which the SSC utilisation improved from 50.8% to 97.9% (p<0.0001).
CONCLUSION
This study demonstrates that onsite clinical capacity building, mentorship and collaborative cluster-based learning platforms can improve SSC utilisation across all levels of facilities performing surgery.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37940334
pii: bmjoq-2023-002406
doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002406
pmc: PMC10632882
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.
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