This beautifully written book captured my attention through using anecdotes and scenarios to which I could relate. Written by a surgeon, it advocates the use of checklists to improve patient care and service delivery.

OBJECTIVE To estimate if using an electronic checklist improved the documentation of shoulder dystocias that occurred at our institution. METHODS A standard checklist of key elements that should be included in the delivery note after a shoulder dystocia was added to the electronic delivery note at our institution. We identified shoulder dystocia deliveries from the department's delivery datab...

Reviews of software work products were introduced by Fagan in the 1970s. A review can be applied to any kind of software work product. A Fagan-type inspection is carried out in a meeting of four or ve people who use checklists to help them locate problems in the product under review. Lately the e ectiveness of both inspection meetings and checklists has been questioned. We examine Fagan-type in...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to examine the recording accuracy of faculty observers and standardized patients (SPs) on a clinical performance examination (CPX). METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of a fourth-year medical students' CPX that was held at a medical school in Seoul, Korea. The CPX consisted of 4 cases and was administered to 118 examinees, with the participation of 5...

Functional health outcome measures are increasingly being used in both clinica trials and practice as measures of patient health. Whilst outcome measures can be generic, there are a number of foot and ankle specific measures available and in use. These are being used as not only region specific but also disease specific measures of patient function. Unfortunately not all of these outcome measur...

Methods A piloted survey was sent to the lead clinicians for all UK pre-hospital services with potential to be able to deliver RSI. Data was compared for high volume (>50 RSIs per annum) and low volume (≤50 RSIs per annum). Another piloted survey was sent to UK clinicians who themselves perform pre-hospital RSI. Current pre-induction checklists were compared and contrasted in terms of length, c...

Developing research proposals that protect human participants and understanding the institutional review board (IRB) approval process require high-level application of many skills. The purpose of this article is to describe how faculty can use formative evaluation techniques and checklists to guide students to build skills in writing research proposals for studies that involve human participant...

A planning checklist for widespread severe acute respiratory syndrome, modeled on an Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) pandemic influenza planning checklist, was developed jointly by ASTHO, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This checklist, distributed May 2003, has been widely used.

abstract therapy-related symptom checklist for children (trsc-c) was developed as a symptom assessment tool in children receiving chemotherapy. the objective of the present study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the persian version of trsc-c. this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013-2014 in tehran, iran. trsc-c was translated using backward-forward approach. the content v...