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Morgan, Lauren J., Robertson, Eleanor, Hadi, Mohammed, Catchpole, Ken, Pickering, Sharon, New, Steve, Collins, Gary S. and McCulloch, Peter (2013) Capturing intraoperative process deviations using a direct observational approach : the glitch method. BMJ Open, Volume 3 (Number 11). Article number e003519. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003519
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003519
Abstract
Objectives: To develop a sensitive, reliable tool for enumerating and evaluating technical process imperfections during surgical operations.
Design: Prospective cohort study with direct observation.
Setting: Operating theatres on five sites in three National Health Service Trusts.
Participants: Staff taking part in elective and emergency surgical procedures in orthopaedics, trauma, vascular and plastic surgery; including anaesthetists, surgeons, nurses and operating department practitioners.
Outcome: measures Reliability and validity of the glitch count method; frequency, type, temporal pattern and rate of glitches in relation to site and surgical specialty.
Results: The glitch count has construct and face validity, and category agreement between observers is good (κ=0.7). Redundancy between pairs of observers significantly improves the sensitivity over a single observation. In total, 429 operations were observed and 5742 glitches were recorded (mean 14 per operation, range 0–83). Specialty-specific glitch rates varied from 6.9 to 8.3/h of operating (ns). The distribution of glitch categories was strikingly similar across specialties, with distractions the commonest type in all cases. The difference in glitch rate between specialty teams operating at different sites was larger than that between specialties (range 6.3–10.5/h, p<0.001). Forty per cent of glitches occurred in the first quarter of an operation, and only 10% occurred in the final quarter.
Conclusions: The glitch method allows collection of a rich dataset suitable for analysing the changes following interventions to improve process safety, and appears reliable and sensitive. Glitches occur more frequently in the early stages of an operation. Hospital environment, culture and work systems may influence the operative process more strongly than the specialty.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RD Surgery | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Surgery -- Complications , Surgery -- Practice, Operations, Surgical -- Great Britain, Medical statistics , Health surveys -- Statistical methods | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ Open | ||||
| Publisher: | BMJ | ||||
| ISSN: | 2044-6055 | ||||
| Official Date: | 25 November 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 3 | ||||
| Number: | Number 11 | ||||
| Page Range: | Article number e003519 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003519 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||
| Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR) | ||||
| Grant number: | RP-PG-0108-10020 (NIHR) |
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