The Mighty Checklist: Redux

Back in October, I entered a blog about the power of checklists. And just the other day, my colleague Frank Miller entered a post on checklists referencing a recent New York Times article on the topic.

Paul Ritchie, on his wonderful Crossderry blog (an HR World Top 100 Blog site) was kind enough to highlight the October PMThink post and offer his thoughts.

A few days ago, Ritchie added another post that showed some excellent examples of checklists in action, including an excerpt from a New Yorker article on the use of checklists in the medical field.

Try this on for size: A single checklist implemented at Johns Hopkins Hospital had prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs.

Here's the post. I suggest reading the whole article...

http://crossderry.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/still-looking-down-in-checklists/