The popular ER TV show highlighted the importance of using checklists in surgery yesterday.
Such powerful quality tools, like the checklist, are just waiting to be used. But far too many fail to use these simple improvement tools. And in health care those failures are potentially critical.
Related: Checklists Save Lives – The Power of a Checklist – management improvement dictionary – Articles on Improving the Health Care System
A <a rehf="http://pierg.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/agile-surgery/">recent post about what I read on a newspaper about 'agile surgery'