Table 2.
Characteristics of operating theatre (OT) staff responses (n=920) in a longitudinal follow-up study on hospital safety culture before (2009) and after (2010 and 2017) the implementation of the WHO’s Surgical Safety Checklists in a stepped wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
| Survey years | ||||||
| Characteristics | 2009 | 2010 | 2017 | |||
| n=349 | % | n=292 | % | n=279 | % | |
| Profession | ||||||
| Surgeon | 125 | 35.8 | 94 | 32.2 | 50 | 17.9 |
| OT nurse | 78 | 22.3 | 70 | 24.0 | 74 | 26.5 |
| Anaesthesiologist | 44 | 12.6 | 41 | 14.0 | 42 | 15.1 |
| Nurse anaesthetist | 77 | 22.1 | 71 | 24.0 | 75 | 26.9 |
| Ancillary personnel | 25 | 7.2 | 17 | 5.8 | 16 | 5.7 |
| Missing | – | – | – | – | 22 | 7.9 |
| Years in profession | ||||||
| <1 | 10 | 2.9 | 14 | 4.8 | 14 | 5.0 |
| 1–5 | 97 | 27.8 | 78 | 26.7 | 64 | 22.9 |
| 6–10 | 103 | 29.5 | 73 | 25.0 | 50 | 18.3 |
| 11–15 | 40 | 11.5 | 42 | 14.4 | 43 | 15.8 |
| 16–20 | 25 | 7.2 | 38 | 13.0 | 48 | 17.2 |
| >21 | 65 | 18.6 | 41 | 14.0 | 54 | 19.4 |
| Missing | 9 | 2.6 | 6 | 2.1 | 6 | 2.2 |
| Weekly working hours | ||||||
| <20 | 16 | 4.6 | 7 | 2.4 | 7 | 2.5 |
| 20–37 | 140 | 40.4 | 114 | 39.0 | 126 | 45.2 |
| >37 | 189 | 54.2 | 168 | 57.5 | 141 | 50.5 |
| Missing | 3 | 0.9 | 3 | 1.0 | 5 | 1.8 |
| Handling patients | ||||||
| Yes | 322 | 92.3 | 269 | 92.1 | 225 | 80.6 |
| No | 21 | 6.0 | 17 | 5.8 | 13 | 4.7 |
| Missing | 6 | 1.7 | 6 | 2.1 | 41 | 14.7 |