The study investigates the impact of the introduction of a surgical checklist on the incidence of complications and mortality within 30 days after surgery in patients scheduled for elective non-cardiac surgery. Patients scheduled for elective surgical procedures lasting longer than 20 minutes at are eligible. Surgery is performed in a single tertiary care center. Study design is an open trial before and after intervention (implementation of the checklist "safe surgery saves lifes").
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
a checklist according to the suggestions raised by the WHO is implementated
number of complications after elective surgery
comparison of number of complications in the two study arms before and after introduction of the checklist
Time frame: within 30 days
mortality
evaluation of 30-days mortality
Time frame: 30 days
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