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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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Prevention of postoperative pulmonary complications.
Mica W. Cook,Steven J. Lisco +1 more
TL;DR: The evaluation and management of pulmonary patients undergoing thoracic surgery has received much attention in the literature, but the risk stratification and perioperative management of patients with PPCs is still poorly understood.
Compliance with Surgical Safety Checklist completion in the operating room
TL;DR: The completeness rate was satisfactory but the overall compliance rate was suboptimal, indicating that this valuable tool could be used more routinely and improve communication.
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Toward improving surgical outcomes by incorporating cognitive load measurement into process-driven guidance
George S. Avrunin,Lori A. Clarke,Heather M. Conboy,Leon J. Osterweil,Roger D. Dias,Steven Yule,Julian M. Goldman,Marco A. Zenati +7 more
TL;DR: The approach for each of the three research thrusts is described by illustrating the work for heparinization, a common subprocess of both AVR and CABG, a high-risk error-prone procedure that involves complex team interactions.
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A Standardized Checklist Improves the Transfer of Stroke Patients from the Neurocritical Care Unit to Hospital Ward
Nick M Murray,Aditya N Joshi,Kassi Kronfeld,Kyle Hobbs,Eric Bernier,Karen G. Hirsch,Carl A. Gold +6 more
TL;DR: Use of the standardized ICU Transfer Checklist was associated with decreased hospital LOS and with improvements in providers’ perceptions of patient safety.
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Development of a hemodialysis safety checklist using a structured panel process
Samuel A. Silver,Alison Thomas,Andrea Rathe,Pamela Robinson,Ron Wald,Ziv Harel,Chaim M. Bell +6 more
TL;DR: A novel 17-item Hemodialysis Safety Checklist (Hemo Pause) for use by nurses and patients has been developed to standardize the hemodialysis procedure.
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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.