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There was an article making the rounds here on HN about medical checklists, similar to what pilots use for takeoff and landing procedures, for example. Can't re

by rzzzt 10y ago

There was an article making the rounds here on HN about medical checklists, similar to what pilots use for takeoff and landing procedures, for example. Can't remember good keywords to search for, though...

nchammas 10y ago
It was probably about the work of Peter Pronovost, or something closely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost
DanBC 10y ago
There's the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/tools_resources/SSSL_Checklist_finalJun08.pdf http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/tools_resources... Here's one article about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436575
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hidroto 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto Another example of doctors advocating checklists.
- maxerickson 10y ago
  This article is by the same author: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist I like the quote from the doctor doing a lot of the work with checklists, answering a question about when they will be widely adopted in medicine: “At the current rate, it will never happen,” [Pronovost] said, as monitors beeped in the background. “The fundamental problem with the quality of American medicine is that we’ve failed to view delivery of health care as a science. The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia. It’s viewed as the art of medicine. That’s a mistake, a huge mistake. And from a taxpayer’s perspective it’s outrageous.”
api_or_ipa 10y ago
As a side note, I've long advocated developers use checklists during releases and more involved git tasks. Why? The cost of using a checklist is minimal-- maybe a few moments glancing at a sheet of paper. The upside is huge though, since you can avoid catastrophic error. I was fortunate enough to earn my wings before becoming a developer, and as lame as it sounds, learning when and where to use checklists is one of the best lessons I learned.

by rzzzt 10y ago

nchammas 10y ago

It was probably about the work of Peter Pronovost, or something closely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pronovost

DanBC 10y ago

There's the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/tools_resources/SSSL_Checklist_finalJun08.pdf http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/tools_resources... Here's one article about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436575

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hidroto 10y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto Another example of doctors advocating checklists.

maxerickson 10y ago
This article is by the same author: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist I like the quote from the doctor doing a lot of the work with checklists, answering a question about when they will be widely adopted in medicine: “At the current rate, it will never happen,” [Pronovost] said, as monitors beeped in the background. “The fundamental problem with the quality of American medicine is that we’ve failed to view delivery of health care as a science. The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia. It’s viewed as the art of medicine. That’s a mistake, a huge mistake. And from a taxpayer’s perspective it’s outrageous.”

api_or_ipa 10y ago

As a side note, I've long advocated developers use checklists during releases and more involved git tasks. Why? The cost of using a checklist is minimal-- maybe a few moments glancing at a sheet of paper. The upside is huge though, since you can avoid catastrophic error. I was fortunate enough to earn my wings before becoming a developer, and as lame as it sounds, learning when and where to use checklists is one of the best lessons I learned.