Charlie Baker wonders why this simple, effective, cost-saving tool isn’t used more often.
The answer is incentives. Hospitals won’t change unless there is a financial motive to do so. If you give bonuses, or penalize, hospitals that use checklists or not, I guarantee you’ll get results.
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Government lawyers shut down the use of checklists. These constituted human research, wrongly exempted by a Hopkins IRB as paper work.
If more die for failure to follow a checklist, thank a lawyer.
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