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Record W4409925692 · doi:10.7759/cureus.83181

Insights Into the Assessment of WHO-Recommended Practices Based on Surgical Operations in Tertiary Healthcare Settings

2025· article· en· W4409925692 on OpenAlexaff
Zeeshan Hussain, Asma Ambareen, Ahmad Raza, Muhammad Usman Minhas, Maryum Sana, Komal Zara

Bibliographic record

VenueCureus · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPatient Safety and Medication Errors
Canadian institutionsContinental (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineTertiary careHealth careMedical educationFamily medicine

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The protection of surgical safety comprises two major elements that produce the best outcomes for patients. The World Health Organization (WHO) created a surgical practice-based assessment for operative procedure-related risks. Medical professionals have proven the effectiveness of this checklist to eliminate both adverse outcomes and medical complications caused by surgical negligence. METHODOLOGY: A study was conducted on 250 surgeries (major and minor) in a tertiary healthcare setting based on a qualitative questionnaire, adapted from the WHO checklist, operated through Google Forms. The examination spanned three months from September to November 2024. In accordance with WHO guidelines, the three surgical safety checklist phases - sign-in, time-out, and sign-out - were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY). RESULTS: The sign-out phase achieved the highest level of adherence, with 220 (88%) of surgical procedures using the checklist. The sign-in phase demonstrated 200 compliant cases (80%), whereas the time-out phase showed the lowest compliance, with only 170 cases (68%). Patient consent procedures, along with anesthesia protocols, instrument sterilization methods, and team member introduction protocols, all maintained complete success rates for ensuring a safe surgical space. CONCLUSIONS: Implementing targeted awareness programs and training will help boost compliance rates with the WHO checklist, despite the current positive results.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.022
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.058
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.115

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0220.058
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.061
GPT teacher head0.490
Teacher spread0.428 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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