Safe Brain Initiative - Dedicated to Advancing Anaesthesia and Perioperative Personalised Care Towards Precision Anaesthesia Care. A Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative.

The SBI core recommendations aim to monitor, detect and ultimately decrease and avoid the adverse side effects of surgery and anaesthesia in our daily routine care.Thereby guiding clinicians on the least invasive and least side effect-prone pathway through the perioperative process.Currently, the Safe Brain Initiative has 18 core recommendations available. All recommendations are non-invasive by nature, with the primary goal of detecting and preventing/reducing adverse outcomes.

SBI-Muda identifies both direct and derived economic effects. Despite being a central component of the broader SBI project, it also deserves and requires a specific focus. An inefficient OR management results in patient frustration, delays for the healthcare professionals, and a reduction in teamwork. Long waiting times can also increase stress and anxiety, prolong fluid fasting times, and exacerbate postoperative complications.

SBI-Muda will improve OR efficiency, reduce POD/PND, and improve patient-reported outcomes (PRO). By providing detailed SBI-Muda dashboard updates and feedback on OR and hospital metrics and placing them in context with the individual's outcomes (e.g., starting time or delay, suture to incision time, time spent in the postanaesthesia care unit (PACU) and postoperative time spent in the hospital). With SBI-Muda, the department as a whole and the healthcare specialist will have access to anonymized- more objective- systematized feedback on the quality of care and the metrics related to the perioperative process.

The SBI-Us functionality focuses on assessing the subjective quality of care provided by professional service providers (nurses, doctors, and other staff) and aligning this with patient-reported quality of care. In this regard, staff members will receive a brief anonymous questionnaire regarding their perception of treatment quality over the last three months. The results will be available to single health care professionals through SBI-me and the department as a whole.

SBI-Us provides a bidirectional perspective, including the patients' and the health care providers' perspectives, for benchmarking improvements in both areas and providing holistic, balanced information on the quality of care in the perioperative setting.