The second piece of the puzzle is something we all know.  The flight crew has a checklist that is completed before each flight.  How simple and effective.

We are well aware that hospital oversights take a huge toll on patients and are very expensive.  The problem is seldom lack of knowledge.  It’s just that people are human.

The New York Times reviewed a book by Atul Gawande “The Checklist Manifesto How To Get things Right”.  Many hospitals worldwide are providing checklists of essential interventions for various procedures. Most hospitals support the  nurses in completing the lists and intervening if a step is missed. The results are remarkable.

“The study began in 2008…….. Without adding a single piece of equipment or spending an extra dollar, all 8 hospitals saw the rate of major postsurgical complications drop by 36% in the six months after the checklist was introduced. deaths fell by 47%,”

Check our the article “A Hospital How-To Guide That Mother Would Love” along with the work of Dr. Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins.