Hospital Checklists: Transforming Evidence-Based Care and Patient Safety Protocols into Routine Practice

By Jeffrey Robbins, LiveData CEO

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, April/June 2011

Drawing on research, recent initiatives, and the company’s experience in high-acuity units, Robbins explores the implications and challenges of implementing checklists in today’s hospitals. If a checklist is to succeed as a mechanism for transforming evidence-based care and safety protocols into best and actual practice, it needs to be used consistently and durably; to achieve this, hospitals need to foster a supportive environment as well as acquire a system to monitor, measure, and manage a culture that effectively embraces checklists.  Read article...