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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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The “Attention-to” List as an Alternative to the Checklist

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TL;DR: In this article , nurses from four different wards co-designed a new take on the ICU follow-up procedure, which included users in designing the procedure and provided the users with the opportunity to influence the product that affects their clinical practices.
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Eye-tracking differences between free text and template radiology reports: a pilot study.

TL;DR: This article found that radiologists look back and forth between viewing and dictation monitors, thereby impacting the length of time spent reviewing images and generating a report, while using a structured template compared with a free text format.
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[Interhospital critical care transport].

TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss the Grundlagen des interhospitalen Intensivtransportes, seine Phasen und Sonderfälle.
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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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