Medical Checklists Save Lives

Checklists and quick references can improve diagnosis.

  • http://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0915/p426.html
  • Atul Gawande advocates surgical checklist and they have been shown to save lives.  See this article.
  • http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/7/08-010708/en/
  • https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/south-carolina-post-surgical-deaths-surgical-safety-checklist/
  • Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. See the book on Amazon.
  • Why did I miss the diagnosis? Some cognitive explanations and educational implications. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10536619
  • Developing checklists to prevent diagnostic error in Emergency Room settings: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4799784/
  • Checklists to reduce diagnostic errors. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21248608