Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small
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Do Checklists Make Things Worse Than Better?
The key is a, does the checklist? Have them stop before the incision. The main barrier since then has been that it either becomes a a tick box efor or no one uses it at all. It was designed to turn people's brain on by enabling a conversation about critical events and concerns of the operation. We found a forty seven % reduction in death when the teams took up the check list.
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