Application of a modified surgical safety checklist: User beware!

Surgical Teams’ Attitudes About Surgical Safety and the Surgical Safety Checklist at 10 Years

“…Diminished Checklist buy-in has been attributed to poor design and content, 33 , 42 redundancy or poor integration within existing workflows in high-resource settings. 43 As well, inadequate training on the Checklist’s purpose and use has been cited as an additional factor. 44 , 45 These issues may be mitigated through the mindful modification of the Checklist to suit local needs and intentions, rather than mandated implementation, as illustrated in other studies.…”