A suitable rule representation is essential to enable automated compliance checking of building design. It encapsulates engineering knowledge and facilitates an adequate interpretation design standards. However, existing methods have achieved limited capabilities represent rules for checking. Thus, they merely worked types rules. This paper aims identify needed by using healthcare regulations a...

OBJECTIVE To provide guidance on the implementation of a surgical safety checklist in the practice of obstetrics and gynaecology. OUTCOMES OUTCOMES evaluated include the impact of the surgical safety checklist on surgical morbidity and mortality. EVIDENCE Medline databases were searched for articles on subjects related to "surgical safety checklist" published in English from January 2001 to...

BACKGROUND Mortality from anaesthesia and surgery in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa remain at levels last seen in high-income countries 70 years ago. With many factors contributing to these poor outcomes, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" campaign in 2007. This program included the design and implementation of the "Surgical Safety Checklist", inco...

AIM To translate the Japanese Kihon Checklist (frailty index) into the Portuguese language, and to validate the use of the checklist for the assessment of the elderly Brazilian population. METHODS A semantic analysis was carried out, along with pretesting of bilingual participants. The checklist was validated against the Edmonton Frail Scale. RESULTS A total of 188 Brazilian older adults (m...

OBJECTIVE To implement a customizable checklist in an interdisciplinary, team-based plastic surgery setting to reduce surgical complications. METHODS We examined the effects on patient outcomes and documentation of a customizable, office-based surgical safety checklist. On the basis of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist, we developed a 28-element, perioperative checklist ...

BACKGROUND Research reporting results of clinical trials, psychosocial or technological interventions frequently omit critical details needed to inform implementation in practice. The aim of this article is to develop an Implementation Readiness (ImpRess) checklist, that includes criteria deemed useful in measuring readiness for implementation and apply it to trials of cognitive stimulation in ...

An expert checklist for evaluating children’s software has been designed and validated on ten children in the second grade. In the first part of the investigation ten psychology students evaluated three edutainment games, all of different quality, by means of the checklist. Based on these results the items on the checklist were then analyzed and filtered (analysis of variance, item analysis). I...

There is currently no standardised procedure checklist for bronchoscopies in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, very few hospitals appear to routinely use any form of checklist for these procedures. Conversely, the World Health Organisation surgical checklist has become standard practice in most hospitals, our own included, for all surgical procedures. Based on our own needs, we decided to create...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the outcomes of checklist-driven preoperative briefings and postoperative debriefings during the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical team training program. METHODS A briefing score (1, never started; 2, started then discontinued; 3, maintained on original targeted cases; 4, expanded to other services; 5, briefing all cases, all serv...

We also have made revisions to comply with MOOSE criteria for meta-analysis of observational studies. In the Supplementary Materials section, we added the MOOSE checklist as well as a spreadsheet (Forest_Notes.xls) containing the input data used in the meta-analysis and notes describing details of the individual studies (diagnostic criteria, inclusion of controls, location of the data in the or...