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Checklists in Developing Countries

Objective Understand how checklists improve safety and how they are used; to recognize some of the similarities and differences in improving quality of care in different settings.
Date March 25, 2011
Lecturer

Alvin Kwok
Surgeon, WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives Initiative

Priya Agrawal
Obstetrician, WHO Making Pregnancy Safer Initiative

Lecture

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Readings

  1. Gawande, Atul. "The Checklist." The New Yorker, December 10, 2007.
  2. Haynes, Alex B., Thomas G. Weiser, and William R. Berry, et al. "A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population." New England Journal of Medicine 360 (2009): 491-499.
  3. Winters, B. D., A. P. Gurses, and H. Lehmann, et al. "Clinical Review: Checklists – Translating Evidence into Practice." Critical Care 13, no. 6 (2009): 210.
  4. Gawande, Atul. "Notes of a Surgeon: Dispatch from India." New England Journal of Medicine 349, no. 25 (2003): 2383-2386.

Discussion Questions

  1. What is a checklist as it relates to health care?
  2. What value do checklists offer in health care?
  3. How can you make checklists a part of standard of care?