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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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Considerations for online deviation detection in medical processes

TL;DR: The proposed deviation detection approach is presented, some of the major research issues that arise are identified, and strategies to address these issues are discussed.
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Organization-wide approaches to patient safety

TL;DR: This work is distributed under the terms of the License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/.
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How does training in anesthesia residency shape residents’ approaches to patient care handoffs? A single-center qualitative interview study

TL;DR: The experiences of residents in anesthesiology as they learn handoff technique are characterizes to inform strategies for teaching this important component of perioperative care and standardization of key handoff topics is recommended.
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Checklisten im OP – ein sinnvolles Instrument zur Verbesserung der Patientensicherheit?

TL;DR: Checklisten sind Arbeitswerkzeuge, who in Hochsicherheitsindustrien wie z.B. im OP zum Einsatz zu bringen as discussed by the authors.
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Research findings with clinical implications

TL;DR: Investigation of how the management of findings with possible clinical implications had been described in research projects that had been granted prior approval by a regional committee for medical and health research ethics (REK) found the absence of written information was not in conformity with the recommendations issued by the Council of Europe.
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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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