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Surgical checklists save lives—but once in a while, they don't. Why?
May 23, 2018
Mukherjee S. New York Times Magazine. May 9, 2018.
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Checklists can coordinate action and communication to augment safety, but human and system factors may hinder their effectiveness. This magazine article reports on how the checklist phenomenon evolved into a global patient safety effort and spotlights the impact of human behavior on reliable implementation of checklist programs in different care environments.
