Saturday, January 17, 2009

Doctors make less mistakes using checklists

In a study published by the New England Journal of Medical, surgeons can reduce the rate of major complications from 11% to 7% by using basic checklists. Additionally, deaths dropped nearly in half with a rate of 1.5% going down to 0.8% using checklists.

I hypothesize that checklists can help in less critical circumstances too.


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