Checklists also save lives! > But a year after surgical teams at eight hospitals adopted a 19-item checklist, the average patient death rate fell more than 40

Checklists also save lives! > But a year after surgical teams at eight hospitals adopted a 19-item checklist, the average patient death rate fell more than 40 percent and the rate of complications fell by about a third, the researchers reported. https://web.archive.org/web/20151103232100/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/health/20surgery.html https://web.archive.org/web/20151103232100/http://www.nytime...