The purpose of the Safe Surgery Organizational Readiness Tool (SSORT) is to evaluate surgical facility members’ baseline beliefs and attitudes toward such interventions and their implementation.

 

Recent efforts have drawn attention to the urgent need to address the lack of access to safe and high-quality surgical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC); however, not all interventions intended to improve quality and safety in LMICs achieve successful outcomes. More strikingly, multiple facilities implementing the same intervention may not all achieve success. This heterogeneity could be explained, in part, by pre-intervention organizational characteristics and lack of readiness of surgical facilities to implement safety and quality improvement interventions.

 

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