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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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Checklists Change Communication About Key Elements of Patient Care
TL;DR: Implementing checklists could facilitate the rapid dissemination of clinical practice changes, improve communication between echelons of care and between individuals involved in patient care, and reduce missed information.
Dissertation
Accident analysis and hazard analysis for human and organizational factors
TL;DR: Thesis (Ph D) as mentioned in this paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., USA, February 2011
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Safety in the home healthcare sector: development of a new household safety checklist.
TL;DR: A new household safety checklist was designed as a tool to enable home healthcare paraprofessionals (HHCPs) to conduct visual safety inspections in patients’ homes and can be effectively trained to identify commonplace household hazards.
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Making researchers moral : Why trustworthiness requires more than ethics guidelines and review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine some limitations of this approach and suggest that past atrocities cannot provide the necessary justification unless institutionalized distrust is a necessary or efficient means to prevent future ones.
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Interruptions and Delivery of Care in the Intensive Care Unit.
TL;DR: There is a need for improvement in task and device design to reduce patient hazards in intensive care unit (ICU) settings, especially when caused by device alarms during nonstructured tasks.
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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.