Staff attitudes to and compliance with the use of a surgical safety checklist

Objectives To investigate staff attitudes to the use of a surgical safety checklist in a small animal operating room and to gain insight into barriers to use. Materials and Methods A questionnaire was designed and used to assess attitudes of 36 operating room personnel to the checklist. The checklist was retrospectively audited on 984 patients over an 8‐month period to investigate compliance. Results Responses were obtained from 100% of...