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The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals.

Facey M, Baxter NN, Hammond Mobilio M, et al. The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals. Sociol Health Illn. 2024;46(6):1100-1118. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13746.

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March 13, 2024
Facey M, Baxter NN, Hammond Mobilio M, et al. Sociol Health Illn. 2024;46(6):1100-1118.
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Surgical safety checklists (SSC) have been shown to improve patient safety, but several studies have exposed they are not always completed as intended. This ethnographic study concludes, thorough interviews, surveys, and observations, that the SCC tends to be completed as a perfunctory task, not to improve patient safety.

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Facey M, Baxter NN, Hammond Mobilio M, et al. The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals. Sociol Health Illn. 2024;46(6):1100-1118. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13746.