Articles: checklist.
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Swiss medical weekly · Jan 2010
Emergency physician intershift handover - can a dINAMO checklist speed it up and improve quality?
Physician intershift handover has been identified as an area of high risk for adverse events, representing a critical step in patient care transition. Due to frequent shift changes and high patient numbers, emergency departments offer an ideal study setting. ⋯ An intervention consisting of a simple checklist of five items (dINAMO) and an immediate feedback on quality not only contributes to a significant shortening of time needed for physician intershift handover in a university hospital emergency department, but simultaneously helps to improve quality of information and therefore patient management.
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Bmc Health Serv Res · Jan 2010
Checklists in the operating room: Help or hurdle? A qualitative study on health workers' experiences.
Checklists have been used extensively as a cognitive aid in aviation; now, they are being introduced in many areas of medicine. Although few would dispute the positive effects of checklists, little is known about the process of introducing this tool into the health care environment. In 2008, a pre-induction checklist was implemented in our anaesthetic department; in this study, we explored the nurses' and physicians' acceptance and experiences with this checklist. ⋯ Our findings suggest several issues and actions that may be important to consider during checklist use and implementation.
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ANZ journal of surgery · Jan 2010
Editorial CommentA surgical safety checklist for Australia and New Zealand.