[Establishment of a modified surgical safety checklist for the neurosurgical patient: Initial experience in 400 cases].

Introduction: Adverse events during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and medical errors associated with them are an important source of patient morbidity. In an attempt to reduce these, the WHO has proposed a series of measures applicable to medical and surgical patients. Within these last ones is the surgical safety checklist (SSC), a brief questionnaire that does not increase healthcare costs, is accessible to all surgical centres and can be adapted to each specific environment.

[An adverse event continuous surveillance system in surgical services of the autonomous region of Cantabria (Spain)].

Objective: To design a continuous surveillance system for adverse events (AEs) in surgical services in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. Through homogeneous methodology, this system will provide the information needed to prevent and control AEs and avoid their recurrence.

Material And Methods: We performed a prospective study of the population undergoing inpatient surgery in our service.