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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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What is perioperative harm and how can we reduce it?
Presentation from Perioperative Harm Advisory Group clinical lead Mr Ian Civil – What is perioperative harm and how can we reduce it?
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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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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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SSI webinar 3: Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis
This recording of webinar 3: surgical antibiotic prophylaxis is a fantastic opportunity to learn from three surgical site infection experts about surgical antibiotic prophylaxis.
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Surgical briefing case studies
Start-of-list briefings improve teamwork, camaraderie and efficiency. These case studies from Counties Manukau Health outline how making start-of-list briefings a standard part of the surgical list, was an easy choice.
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Information about the Safe Surgery NZ programme quality and safety marker
This factsheet is provided to support district health board (DHB) surgical teams in their work to measure the impact of the teamwork and communication interventions and submit quality and safety marker (QSM) data to the Health Quality & Safety Commis
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Video: Surgical safety checklist (full length, 10min 58sec)
A video from the Commission outlining the use of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.
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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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Anti-staphylococcal bundle to reduce surgical site infections in orthopaedic and cardiac surgery
Feedback summary of discussion paper and next steps