NCT01356446

Checklist Application and Mortality

Impact of the Surgical Checklist on 30-day and 90-day Mortality in Elective Non-cardiac Surgery

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Regional Hospital of Bolzano · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study investigates the impact of the implementation of a surgical checklist on the mortality 30 days and 90 days after surgery. Patients scheduled for elective surgical procedures (excluding cardiac surgery) lasting at least 15 minutes are eligible. Surgery is performed in a single tertiary care center. The study is an open trial before and after intervention (implementation of the checklist "safe surgery saves lifes").

Conditions

• Mortality
• Outcome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	implementation surgical checklist	a checklist according to the suggestions raised by the WHO is implemented

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2011-05-19
• Last updated: 2015-05-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy