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The checklist--a tool for error management and performance improvement.
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This narrative is a guide to the evolution of medical and critical care checklists, and a discussion of the barriers and risks to the implementation of checklists.About:
This article is published in Journal of Critical Care.The article was published on 2006-09-01. It has received 565 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Human error & Checklist.read more
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Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America
TL;DR: The knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost, and a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system.
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A systematic review of the effectiveness, compliance, and critical factors for implementation of safety checklists in surgery.
TL;DR: Checklists are effective and economic tools that decrease mortality and morbidity in surgery and further research in particular relating to implementation is needed.
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Co-Designing Checklists to Understand Organizational Challenges and Opportunities around Fairness in AI
TL;DR: It is found that AI fairness checklists could provide organizational infrastructure for formalizing ad-hoc processes and empowering individual advocates, and highlight aspects of organizational culture that may impact the efficacy of AI fairnessChecklists.
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Cognitive and system factors contributing to diagnostic errors in radiology.
TL;DR: Some of the cognitive and system-based sources of detection and interpretation errors in diagnostic radiology are described and potential approaches to help reduce misdiagnoses are discussed to create sustainable improvement in diagnostic errors.
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Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.
Thomas G. Weiser,Alex B. Haynes,Angela Lashoher,Angela Lashoher,Gerald Dziekan,Daniel J. Boorman,William R. Berry,Atul A. Gawande,Atul A. Gawande +8 more
TL;DR: The authors of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist drew lessons from the aviation experience to create a safety tool that supports essential clinical practice and discusses the differences that exist between aviation and medicine that impact the use of checklists in health care.
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To Err Is Human Building a Safer Health System
TL;DR: Boken presenterer en helhetlig strategi for hvordan myndigheter, helsepersonell, industri og forbrukere kan redusere medisinske feil.
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Book ReviewTo Err is Human: building a safer health system Kohn L T Corrigan J M Donaldson M S Washington DC USA: Institute of Medicine/National Academy Press ISBN 0 309 06837 1 $34.95
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Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys
TL;DR: Medical staff reported that error is important but difficult to discuss and not handled well in their hospital and barriers to discussing error are more important since medical staff seem to deny the effect of stress and fatigue on performance.
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On error management: lessons from aviation
TL;DR: Although operating theatres are not cockpits, medicine could learn from aviation and aviation has developed standardised methods of investigating, documenting, and disseminating errors and their lessons.
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Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist: evaluation of a new screening tool
TL;DR: The Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist can easily be applied by a clinician or a nurse in a busy critical care setting to screen all patients even when communication is compromised, and helps to identify delirious patients.