Hospital checklists are meant to save lives - so why do they often fail?

Nature. 2015 Jul 30;523(7562):516-8. doi: 10.1038/523516a.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • News

MeSH terms

  • Checklist / standards
  • Checklist / statistics & numerical data*
  • Clinical Competence / statistics & numerical data
  • General Surgery / methods*
  • General Surgery / standards*
  • Hospitals*
  • Humans
  • Medical Errors / mortality*
  • Medical Errors / prevention & control*
  • Pilot Projects
  • Program Evaluation*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Treatment Failure
  • World Health Organization