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Safe Surgery NZ teamwork & communication video 6: Interview 1
Video 6 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
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Safe surgery programme
The safe surgery programme aims to improve teamwork and communication in the operating room by leveraging the WHO surgical safety checklist as a teamwork and communication tool.
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Safe Surgery NZ teamwork & communication video 5: Debriefing
Video 5 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
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Counties Manukau Health safe surgery posters
Localised start-of-list and surgical safety checklist posters from Counties Manukau Health.
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Keeping you safe during surgery – surgical safety brochure for patients
Brochure for patients to explain the various elements of the surgical safety checklist.
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Risk factors differ for Gram-negative surgical site infection following hip and knee arthroplasty: an observational study from a national surveillance system
This article describes describe risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) caused by aerobic Gram-negative organisms after hip and knee arthroplasty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Safer surgery journal articles (long and short versions, updated August 2021)
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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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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