Do medical checklists improve patient safety or not?
Probably the best known medical checklist is the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, which was developed by WHO’s Safe Surgery Saves Lives program led by Atul Gawande, MD. Dr Gawande is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and is the author of “The Checklist Manifesto”. Continue reading “6 Must Do’s to Ensure Safety Checklists Work”