http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/03/using-checklists-in-icu-real-world.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/03/using-checklists-in-icu-real-world.html#comment-90030 Chuck Brooks Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/03/using-checklists-in-the-icu-a-real-world-patient-safety-success-story.html#comment-90030 Pilots of commercial and private aircraft have been using checklists for decades, and there are software products that do checklists for such things as graphic design tasks, semiconductor fab line maintanance and the like. The study led by Dr Atul Gawande should have put this issue to rest for the medical community. Perhaps simple things like this, highly effective as they are, can replace the proposed whiz-bank technostuff bandied about for solving the 'health crisis'.<br/>Chuck Brooks<br/>FutureWare SCG Pilots of commercial and private aircraft have been using checklists for decades, and there are software products that do checklists for such things as graphic design tasks, semiconductor fab line maintanance and the like. The study led by Dr Atul Gawande should have put this issue to rest for the medical community. Perhaps simple things like this, highly effective as they are, can replace the proposed whiz-bank technostuff bandied about for solving the ‘health crisis’.
Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

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