Back to basics: checklists in aviation and healthcare
Open Access
- 12 May 2015
- journal article
- viewpoint
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Quality & Safety
- Vol. 24 (7), 428-431
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2015-003957
Abstract
The checklist approach has the same potential to save lives and prevent morbidity in medicine that it did in aviation over 70 years ago by ensuring that simple standards are applied for every patient, every time.4 page(sKeywords
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