Ginepcheck: design of an application for safety verification in minimally invasive gynecological surgery

Abstract

Objective: To propose a digital verification tool for patient safety control with indication for minimally invasive surgery, of the gynecology service of the La Trinidad Teaching Medical Center in the period January-October 2022. Methods: Study framed in the feasible project modality: the first observational, prospective and descriptive stage included 30 professionals using the surgical area of the institution to whom a questionnaire was applied to perform the situational analysis on the use of checklists. Subsequently, the proposed tool was designed and elaborated, put into practice and evaluated by 10 of the 30 respondents, according to the surgical shifts. Results: Twenty-eight respondents (93.3%) knew that there are checklists in medicine, 13 (43.3%) knew the World Health Organization Patient Surgical Safety Checklist and 9 (30%) knew it was available on paper at the institution, 3 physicians (10%) used it regularly. All felt that the design of an application was pertinent to improve patient safety in surgery. The Ginepcheck application was designed and developed, available at: https://www.jotform.com/app/222838439849675?utm_source=quick-qr&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=portal-app&utm_term=222838439849675 . 100% of respondents rated the app experience as excellent and answered yes about its usefulness. Conclusion: The use of checklists in the institution is low, but staff find it useful to design an application to ensure patient surgical safety. Ginepcheck is an application available on the web that comes to solve the discomforts produced by the use of the paper list