PREDICTIVE VALUE OF SURGICAL SAFETY CHECKLIST AN OPERATING ROOM

Health care is complex, with several interdisciplinary elements, incredibly unpredictable and at high risk of hazard. Healthcare environments are complex and tightly coupled systems that have proven to be error-prone [i]. Patients expect to be reasonably safe when under medical supervision [ii]. In 2019, the US based, Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human, claimed that between 44.000 and 98.000 patients in the US die every year from preventable adverse events.

The rising cost of health care is given progressively more importance worldwide. A major factor affecting hospital cost is complications following surgery [iv]. Surgical care is an integral part of health care throughout the world, with an estimated 234 million operations performed annually [v]. Surgical complications are a considerable cause of death and disability around the world. The World Bank reported that in 2002, an estimated 164 million disability-