The checklist - a practical tool to enhance safety

摘要

This month, Georgina Murphy looks at examples of checklists and charts that can utilised in practice to enhance patient care and safety.The aviation industry has used checklists for preflight, take-off and landing as a method of listing tasks and checks in a logical sequence for many years. This provides protection against lapses in memory or attention, In medical use, checklists are used to ensure that crucial tasks are carried out at the correct time, that information is communicated, and that basic care is managed in an evidence-based and systematic way.