The IFNA participates to the WHO program " Safe Surgery Saves Life" and has endorsed the Surgical Safety Checklist. This project was launched last June and is already reporting on improvment. Here is the message sent by the WHO team:
The Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative is proud to announce that the results of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Pilot Study were published online today by the New England Journal of Medicine. The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist reduced the rate of deaths and complications by more than one third in our eight pilot hospitals (located in Toronto, Canada; New Delhi, India; Amman, Jordan; Auckland, New Zealand; Manila, Philippines; Ifakara, Tanzania; London, UK; Seattle, USA). The rate of major inpatient complications dropped from 11% to 7% and inpatient death rate following major operations fell from 1.5% to 0.8% after implementation of the checklist. The effect was of similar magnitude in both high and low/middle income country sites.
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