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Surgical briefings support practical decision making
Alisa Ili, theatre nurse manager and Dr Andrew Connolly, general surgeon at Counties Manukau Health, share how start-of-list briefings support their decision making.
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Guidelines: Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis
This document has been produced to encourage health care professionals to use surgical prophylaxis more effectively to improve the safety and quality of care that patients receive.
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Video: Surgical safety checklist (summary version, 4min 03sec)
This is a summary version of the Commission's video on effective use of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.
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Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme case studies
Surveillance case studies from the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme.
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Guidelines: Clipping not shaving intervention guidelines
This document has been produced to encourage health care professionals to clip, not shave, hair prior to surgery to improve the safety and quality of care that patients receive.
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Video: Surgical briefing and debriefings
This video from the Commission's Reducing Perioperative Harm programme demonstrates best practice for briefing and debriefing sessions, based on the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.
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Anti-staphylococcal bundle to reduce surgical site infections in orthopaedic and cardiac surgery
Feedback summary of discussion paper and next steps
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Surgical site infection patient story: Ian Collis
This is the story of Ian Collis who contracted a surgical site infection after undergoing heart surgery.
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Health Quality & Safety Commission | Surgical safety culture survey report 2019
The 2019 surgical safety culture survey was undertaken by Mobius Research and Strategy, to assist in evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Safe Surgery NZ programme. This report presents the results of the 2019 survey.
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Surgical site infection (SSI) investigation tool
Tool for health providers to support review of adverse events involving surgical site infections.