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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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Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America
TL;DR: The knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost, and a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system.
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A systematic review of the effectiveness, compliance, and critical factors for implementation of safety checklists in surgery.
TL;DR: Checklists are effective and economic tools that decrease mortality and morbidity in surgery and further research in particular relating to implementation is needed.
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Co-Designing Checklists to Understand Organizational Challenges and Opportunities around Fairness in AI
TL;DR: It is found that AI fairness checklists could provide organizational infrastructure for formalizing ad-hoc processes and empowering individual advocates, and highlight aspects of organizational culture that may impact the efficacy of AI fairnessChecklists.
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Cognitive and system factors contributing to diagnostic errors in radiology.
TL;DR: Some of the cognitive and system-based sources of detection and interpretation errors in diagnostic radiology are described and potential approaches to help reduce misdiagnoses are discussed to create sustainable improvement in diagnostic errors.
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Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.
Thomas G. Weiser,Alex B. Haynes,Angela Lashoher,Angela Lashoher,Gerald Dziekan,Daniel J. Boorman,William R. Berry,Atul A. Gawande,Atul A. Gawande +8 more
TL;DR: The authors of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist drew lessons from the aviation experience to create a safety tool that supports essential clinical practice and discusses the differences that exist between aviation and medicine that impact the use of checklists in health care.
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The evolution of Crew Resource Management training in commercial aviation.
TL;DR: An overarching framework that stresses error management to increase acceptance of CRM concepts is presented and defines behavioral strategies taught in CRM as error countermeasures that are employed to avoid error, to trap errors committed, and to mitigate the consequences of error.
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Eliminating catheter-related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit.
Sean M. Berenholtz,Peter J. Pronovost,Pamela A. Lipsett,Deborah B. Hobson,Karen Earsing,Jason E. Farley,Shelley Milanovich,Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer,Bradford D. Winters,Haya R. Rubin,Todd Dorman,Trish M. Perl +11 more
TL;DR: Multifaceted interventions that helped to ensure adherence with evidence-based infection control guidelines nearly eliminated CR-BSIs in the authors' surgical ICU.
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Improving communication in the ICU using daily goals.
Peter J. Pronovost,Sean M. Berenholtz,Todd Dorman,Pamela A. Lipsett,Terri Simmonds,Carol Haraden +5 more
TL;DR: Implementing the daily goals form resulted in a significant improvement in the percent of residents and nurses who understood the goals of care for the day and a reduction in ICU LOS.
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Using checklists and reminders in clinical pathways to improve hospital inpatient care.
TL;DR: To determine whether the quality of hospital inpatient care can be improved by using checklists and reminders in clinical pathways, a large number of patients with a history of depression are surveyed.