Bajracharya, JasmineShrestha, RiteshKarki, DeepikaShrestha, Asim2026-02-112026-02-112021https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14572/4684Jasmine Bajracharya Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9100-2102 Ritesh Shrestha Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal Deepika Karki Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Jorpati, Nepal Asim Shrestha Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital, Jorpati, NepalAbstract: Introduction: The Surgical safety checklist by World Health Organization has been used for the last two decades. There is every chance of unwanted expected disasters in Operating-Room in Pediatricsurgical cases. Our study is to observe the utilization of the safety checklist and evaluate occurrence of never-events in Tertiary Level Pediatric Surgery Unit in Nepal. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was done at Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital from January 2021-June 2021 with record-based data of children from 0-15 years operated in Pediatric Surgery unit from March 2017-July 2018. Ethical approval (Reference number: 049-077-078) was taken from the Institution review committee of the institute. Convenience sampling was done. Self-designed Pro-forma with demographic data along with World Health Organization-Surgical-safety-checklist used was collected and entered in Microsoft-Excel. Data were analyzed using Statistical-Package-for-the-Social-Sciences-version-25. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was done along with frequency and proportion for binary data. Results: Out of 267 cases enrolled, 103 (38.6%) (35.6-41.6 at 95% Confidence Interval) were fully compliant with the checklist, 69 (25.8%) partially compliant. Among compliant cases, 148 (55.4%) Sign-in part, 128 (47.9%) cases -Time-out part and 152 (56.9%) cases Sign-out part were complete. Conclusions: Compliance with World Health Organization-Surgical-safety-checklist has a major role in preventing morbidity and mortality in Pediatric surgical cases. With proper use of the checklist, the unwanted never-events can be prevented with better surgical outcomes.en-USchecklistcompliancecritical medical incidentsnever eventssurgical errorsArticle