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Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low-resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY Forrester, J. A., Starr, N., Negussie, T., Schaps, D., Adem, M., Alemu, S., Amenu, D., Gebeyehu, N., Habteyohannes, T., Jiru, F., Tesfaye, A., Wayessa, E., Chen, R., Trickey, A., Bitew, S., Bekele, A., Weiser, T. G. 2020: 727-734

Abstract

Clean Cut is an adaptive, multimodal programme to identify improvement opportunities and safety changes in surgery by enhancing outcomes surveillance, closing gaps in surgical infection prevention standards, and strengthening underlying processes of care. Surgical-site infections (SSIs) are common in low-income countries, so this study assessed a simple intervention to improve perioperative infection prevention practices in one.Clean Cut was implemented in five hospitals in Ethiopia from August 2016 to October 2018. Compliance data were collected from the operating room focused on six key perioperative infection prevention standards. Process-mapping exercises were employed to understand barriers to compliance and identify locally driven improvement opportunities. Thirty-day outcomes were recorded on patients for whom intraoperative compliance information had been collected.Compliance data were collected from 2213 operations (374 at baseline and 1839 following process improvements) in 2202 patients. Follow-up was completed in 2159 patients (98·0 per cent). At baseline, perioperative teams complied with a mean of only 2·9 of the six critical perioperative infection prevention standards; following process improvement changes, compliance rose to a mean of 4·5 (P?

View details for DOI 10.1002/bjs.11997

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View details for PubMedID 34157086