Evaluation of NetworkZ: Can multidisciplinary team-training improve the safety of surgery in New Zealand?

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Preventable surgical harm and death; Surgery - Other surgery; Anaesthesiology - Other anaesthesiology

• Registration Number: ACTRN12617000017325
• Lead Sponsor: Professor Jennifer Weller

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2017-01-05
• Last Update Posted: 27 December 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 6000

Inclusion Criteria

Eligibility for the training and staff surveys and observations: All staff working in ORs to provide general, orthopaedic, urological, plastics, and ENT/ORL surgery in NZ. The main staff groups who will be included are: surgeons, surgical trainees, anaesthetists, anaesthetic trainees, anaesthetic technicians, anaesthetic technician trainees, and theatre nurses. We will also include some staff who have a managerial interest in the implementation of NetworkZ training in their DHB, including directors of surgery, directors of nursing, and quality managers.
Eligibility for patient outcome measure: all patients having surgical procedures with anaesthesia that are listed in the procedural codes of the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (PMRC), involve the previously defined surgical disciplines and are operated on in a public hospital operating room in New Zealand

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria for training and evaluation: Some junior medical staff that have not commenced specialised training in anaesthesia or surgery, such as house officers, may be present in the teams that we observe and rate, but we will not seek to gather survey information from them in relation to our two staff safety culture surveys. The same will apply to Health Care Assistants, who may or may not be involved in OR work.
Exclusion criteria for surgical cases: minor procedures (i.e. patients who had their operation under local infiltration only).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified