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Strategies for Improving Quality and Safety in Global Health: Lessons From Nontechnical Skills for Surgery Implementation in Rwanda

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Key Messages Efforts to increase access to surgical care will achieve improved health outcomes only if those efforts are intertwined with efforts to increase surgical safety and quality. The World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist and Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS) framework are 2 tools to increase surgery quality and safety. The NOTSS for variable resource contexts is a new 1-day educational course developed in Rwanda that integrates contextually appropriate behaviors and values and can be implemented with low costs in any health care context. Program managers should provide context-specific NOTSS training for surgeons and operating theater staff. Policy makers should implement NOTSS framework into health care policy focusing on modern virtual teaching methods. Surgeons and operating theater staff should be familiar with the NOTSS framework and regularly update their knowledge through didactic courses, simulation, and online trainings.

Source: Global Health Science and Practice

DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-21-00042