Endorsing Organizations: Local or national organizations that have endorsed the Safe Surgery Saves Lives program through a written letter of support. These groups have acknowledged the importance of using the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist as a tool for surgical teams worldwide to improve patient safety and the establishment of "Surgical Vital Statistics" to help countries track surgical volume and in-hospital surgical death rates.
International Organizations: Organizations representing multiple national groups or with an international constituency that have endorsed the Safe Surgery Saves Lives program through a written letter of support.
Total Registrants: Institutions that have expressed interest in using the Checklist.
Actively using the Checklist: Institutions that have trialed the Checklist in at least one operating theatre.
Pilot Sites: The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist has been evaluated in eight pilot sites in eight different countries to identify potential problems with implementation and acceptance and to confirm that its use can actually improve surgical safety. Preliminary results from 1000 patients indicate that the Checklist has nearly doubled the likelihood that patients will receive proven standards of surgical care. Use of the Checklist increased the rate of adherence to these standards from 36% to 68% and in some hospitals to almost 100%, resulting in substantial reductions in complications and deaths.
Surgical Rates: Rates of surgery per 100,000 people, per country. Symbolized with a color gradient:
Notes:
*** Organization and Hospital locations are geocoded to the City level of detail. Multiple features in the same city are seperated apart to be individually clickable. Organizations or Hospitals with no city listed are geocoded roughly to the center of the country
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*** The hospital names are linked to Google Search for the name and country. The results may vary.
*** Map produced by the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University.