Use of safe surgery checklist in brazilian health services: integrative review
International Journal of Development Research
Use of safe surgery checklist in brazilian health services: integrative review
Received 29th May, 2017; Received in revised form 07th June, 2017; Accepted 10th July, 2017; Published online 30th August, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Aline Souza Campos and Reginaldo Passoni dos Santos. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In an attempt to mitigate cases of adverse events and incidents with surgical patients, the brazilian Ministry of Health advocates the use of a checklist, which must be applied in the trans-operative period of all surgical procedures performed in the country’s health services. The purpose of this study was to identify the brazilian scientific production on the use of the safe surgical checklist and verify the professional adherence to it. We have developed an integrative, in December 2016, in the following sources: Scientific Electronic Library Online; Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences; Nursing Database. For the selection of studies, were applied the descriptors: “patient safety”, “checklist” and “surgical procedures, operative”. Thus, were included six original articles, published between January 2010 and December 2015, with full text available online, in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Of the included studies, three (50%) were documentary research and four (66.67%) were published nursing journals. The brazilian scientific production in incipient. Educational programs can help to improved professional adherence to the instrument.
