STOP? II: Testing of a Toolbox for Structured Communication in the Operating Room

For the clusters (surgeons)

Inclusion Criteria:

• Board-certified surgeons with specialization in one of the following disciplines:general, visceral, thoracic, vascular surgery, surgical urology, or gynecology.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Surgeons who are already performing StOP?-protocol. (Potentially, surgeons who tookpart in the first study (StOP-I) may still perform StOP?).

• Surgeon who were previously enrolled in the StOP?-II trial (this is relevant forsurgeons who move or rotate between departments/hospitals and might therefore beworking at different participating sites).

For the patients:

Inclusion criteria:

• Patients operated by cluster surgeons during the cluster-specific time period

• General consent from the patients, allowing the use of healthcare-related data thatare the result of the patient's treatment. In case no written document from thegeneral consent is available despite documented efforts of the participating center,article 34 HRA (Swiss law) will be applied, allowing the use of thehealthcare-related patient data.

Exclusion criteria:

• Patient age below 18 years

• Previous operation at the same site up to 30 days prior the index operation

• Procedures not done in operating rooms but in outpatient clinics, on wards, etc.

• Mainly diagnostic endoscopic procedures (e.g. colonoscopy, gastroscopy,bronchoscopy)

• Percutaneous interventions (e.g., transurethral interventions)

• Documented refusal for the use of healthcare related data