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It turns out that you can reduce the number of surgical instruments left in patients by 33% by implementing checklists. Surgeons won't do it because it feels be
by thras 17y ago
It turns out that you can reduce the number of surgical instruments left in patients by 33% by implementing checklists. Surgeons won't do it because it feels beneath them.
- TJensen 17y agoSo get the nurses to do it for them, which, I believe, is what the researchers who were looking at this had to do.
- imajes 17y agowhat bothers me is why this isn't more like 90% (in other words, why you don't check all items in and out - anything else is pretty lame supply chain management)
- bkudria 17y agoAnd it is. We have computers for this. Specifically, RFID chips, and readers. Surgeons are very very expensive, so their time is too.
- andreyf 17y agoSurgeons are very very expensive, so their time is too. Surgical instruments, on the other hand, are easy to replace ;)
- snprbob86 17y agoYou don't need to get that fancy. Just paint silhouettes of the instruments onto the counter. Same effect, simpler operation, bonus clutter reduction.
- eru 17y agohttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...