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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.
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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.

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Projeto de reestruturação do programa 5s em uma indústria do setor moveleiro

TL;DR: The authors describe a trabalho de reestruturação da metodologia 5S aplicada in uma indústria do ramo moveleiro.
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Cardiac arrest in an obstetric patient: a simulated emergency.

TL;DR: A healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman develops pulseless electrical activity (PEA) arrest at 33-weeks gestation, which leads to a simulating cardiac arrest in an Obstetric Patient.
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Design of a sign-out process to improve surgical safety:

TL;DR: The sign-out process was redesigned as a web-based application embedded on a desktop and on a tablet that was rated higher than the current system for situation awareness, detecting errors, understanding the benefits of the sign- out process, and ability to view information all at once.
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Three-Dimensional Treatment Simulation for Predictable Orthodontic Treatment Planning and Implementation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present several key functions of digital diagnostic procedures that are available to orthodontists who want to utilize digital technology in their practices, and four clinical cases are described to illustrate the benefits of using of three-dimensional digital planning for the diagnosis, decision-making process, and treatment of Orthodontic patients.
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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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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.
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