Reality check of using the surgical safety checklist: A qualitative study to observe application errors during snapshot audits

• Gerald Sendlhofer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Executive Department for Quality and Risk Management, University Hospital Graz, Graz, Austria, Research Unit for Safety in Health, c/o Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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• David Benjamin Lumenta ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: david.lumenta@gmail.com

  Affiliation Research Unit for Safety in Health, c/o Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0903-252X

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• Gudrun Pregartner,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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• Karina Leitgeb,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Executive Department for Quality and Risk Management, University Hospital Graz, Graz, Austria

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• Peter Tiefenbacher,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Executive Department for Quality and Risk Management, University Hospital Graz, Graz, Austria

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• Veronika Gombotz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Executive Department for Quality and Risk Management, University Hospital Graz, Graz, Austria

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• Christian Richter,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Executive Department for Quality and Risk Management, University Hospital Graz, Graz, Austria

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• Lars Peter Kamolz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit for Safety in Health, c/o Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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• Gernot Brunner

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit for Safety in Health, c/o Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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