NYTimes.com recently reported a study, included in The New England Journal of Medicine, that tracked surgical teams following a checklist during surgery. The "Checklist Reduces Deaths in Surgery" article states that the year long study tracked eight hospitals implementing a 19-item checklist. Complications with surgery fell by about a third while the average patient death rate fell more than 40%! Wow.
Doctors can reduce medical malpractice by following checklists
January 22, 2009
