Compliance with the World Health Organization’s surgical safety checklist and related postoperative outcomes: a nationwide survey among 172 health facilities in Ethiopia

Table 2 Non-compliance to surgical safety checklist guide during major emergency and elective surgeries in public and private health facilities in Ethiopia, December 2020 to May 2021

Level of Health care	Number of surgical charts reviewed N(%)	Surgeries non-compliant to SSC guide^a
Level of Health care	Number of surgical charts reviewed N(%)	Didn’t utilize SSC. N(%)	Incomplete or incorrect SSC	Non-compliant, total
Public Specialized Hospitals	160 (100%)	24 (15%)	56 (41.2%)	80 (50.0%)
Public General Hospitals	370 (97.4%)	95 (25.7%)	116 (42.2%)	211 (13.2%)
Public Primary Hospitals	800 (93%)	191 (23.9%)	227 (37.3%)	418 (26.1%)
Private Hospitals	273 (85.3%)	210 (76.9%)	25 (39.7%)	235 (14.7%)
Total	1603 (93.2%)	520 (32.4% of 1603)	424 (39.2% of 1083)	944 (58.9%)

^aNote the difference between the denominators for ‘Didn’t utilize SSC’ (32.4% of 1603 charts reviewed) and the denominator for ‘Incomplete or incorrect SSC’ (39.2% of 1083 SSC used)

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