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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of included studies regarding to WHO SSC compliance

From: Beyond compliance: examining the completeness and determinants of WHO surgical safety checklist - a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author

Year

Country

Study Design

Sampling technique

Sample Size

Proportion of SSC compliance

Quality of included studies(JBI)

Tiruneh and Yetneberk [31]

2020

Ethiopia

Cross-sectional

Not stated

3460

82.1%

6

Mersh et al. [30]

2021

Ethiopia

Cross-sectional

Not stated

100

100%

6

Igaga et al. [21]

2018

Uganda

Prospective Cohort

Purposive

859

41.7%

7

Sibhatu et al. [25]

2022

Ethiopia

Retrospective CS

Stratified random sampling

1603

67.6%

8

Melekie and Getahun [23]

2015

Ethiopia

Prospective observational

Not stated

282

39.7%

8

Girma et al. [26]

2022

Ethiopia

Prospective CS

Convenient

384

93.5%

8

Bajracharya et al. [27]

2021

Nepal

Prospective CS

Convenient

267

64%

6

Ribeiro et al. [28]

2019

Brazil

Retrospective CS

Simple random

423

95%

6

Fridrich et al. [32]

2022

Swiss

Not stated

systematic

8622

91%

4

Ambulkar et al. [24]

2018

India

Prospective Observational

Convenient

600

84.8%

5

Allene [22]

2020

Ethiopia

Prospective Cohort

Convenient

255

100%

6

Cullati et al. [14]

2014

Swiss

Cross sectional

Not stated

152

65%

5

Tan et al. [33]

2021

China

Prospective CS

Not stated

860

79.8%

5

Mean score

6.15