Evaluation of Implementation the Principles of Surgical Safety Checklist in Operating Rooms of the Selected Hospital of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 2018

Background: Although surgery is done for improving the patient’s condition, it can put every individual that undergoes surgery at risk of irreparable postoperative complications. One way to decrease the post-surgery complications is apply of surgical safety checklist. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the implementation of surgical safety checklist in operating rooms of the selected hospital of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 2018. Methods: This cross sectional descriptive study was done by a checklist designed based on the surgical safety checklist on randomly selected 150 operations, in the selected hospital of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences between January and May 2018. Results: According to the findings, 77.1% of the safe surgery standards are observed in the operating rooms of the selected hospital. 77.48% of the safe surgery standards are observed before anesthesia, 74.8% of the standards are observed after anesthesia and before incision, and 79.33% of the standards are observed after suturing the wound until getting the patient out of the operating room. The results of t-test showed that there is a significant difference between different operating rooms in terms of the implementation of surgical safety checklist (P < 0.05). Conclusions: The findings show that implementation level of safe surgery standards was low. So, it’s necessary to take specific measures for explain the importance of the items of this checklist and developing educational programs to explain the importance of the patients’ safety in operating rooms for the surgical staff.