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- Improving surgical teamwork and communication: A guide to preparing and implementing
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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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Video: Antibiotic Intervention
The video below outlines the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's guidelines for the appropriate use of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis – the first in a series of interventions.
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SSIIP skin antisepsis guide
This document has been produced to encourage health care professionals to use skin antisepsis preparation more effectively to improve the safety and quality of care that patients receive.
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Aotearoa New Zealand Tall Man lettering list (October 2023)
The Aotearoa New Zealand Tall Man lettering list (updated October 2023) includes look-alike, sound-alike medicine names that have been predicted to pose the greatest risk to patient safety.
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Surgical Safety Culture Survey Research Report 2017
Safe Surgery NZ aims to make surgery safer by improving teamwork and communication in the operating theatre. The 2017 Surgical Safety Culture Survey demonstrates an improvement in the attitudes and perceptions of surgical team members across New Zeal
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SSI webinar 1: Case for change
Presentations from the first SSI webinar - the case for change.
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Southern Cross Hospitals surgical safety checklist posters
Surgical safety checklist posters (sign in, time out, sign out) from Southern Cross Hospitals.
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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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Attitudes towards the Surgical Safety Checklist and its use in New Zealand operating theatres
Report from Litmus on attitudes towards the Surgical Safety Checklist and its use in New Zealand operating theatres.