Meaningful use and good catches: More appropriate metrics for checklist effectiveness

Putnam, Luke R.; Anderson, Kathryn T.; Diffley, Michael B.; Hildebrandt, Aubrey A.; Caldwell, Kelly M.; Minzenmayer, Andrew N.; Covey, Sarah E.; Kawaguchi, Akemi L.; Lally, Kevin P.; Tsao, KuoJen

doi:10.1016/j.surg.2016.04.038

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“…35 In one of the other few studies that address outcomes in pediatric surgical patients, there is no significant decrease in morbidity or mortality, except in developing countries when a broad safety strategy that includes practice bundles and team-based practice is employed. 36 In the pediatric population, perhaps a better measure of outcome success would be to look at the ability of the checklist to prevent errors and identify “near misses” or “good catches.” As suggested by Putnam et al, 37 meaningful use or good catches may be a more appropriate metric for checklist effectiveness. Wrong-site surgery is unacceptable but exceedingly rare.…”

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Surgical Safety Checklists in Children’s Surgery: Surgeons’ Attitudes and Review of the Literature

Roybal

Tsao

Rangel

et al. 2018

Pediatric Quality &Amp; Safety

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Surgical Safety Checklists in Children’s Surgery: Surgeons’ Attitudes and Review of the Literature

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Pediatric Quality &Amp; Safety

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“…Successful implementation of a surgical checklist requires leadership, education, training, real‐time feedback, and an integration the checklist into the surgical culture . This study evaluated the success of a surgery specific challenge response/closed loop checklist by essentially evaluating “good catches.” This is likely a better and more appropriate metric for evaluating the effectiveness of checklist than other methods . This checklist was integrated into the daily surgical routine in the operating suite.…”

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A challenge‐response endoscopic sinus surgery specific checklist as an add‐on to standard surgical checklist: an evaluation of potential safety and quality improvement issues

Sommer

Arbab-Tafti

Farrokhyar

et al. 2018

Int Forum Allergy Rhinol

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“…Rather, the purpose of a checklist is to provide support and reduce memory burden. Following implementation, checklists can be evaluated with a broad range of measures including perceived utility, adherence (including steps not followed or skipped), performance measures (eg, number of errors, task time, near-misses) and patient outcomes (eg, harm, readmission) 32. Lastly, use and maintenance must also be considered.…”

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Checking all the boxes: a checklist for when and how to use checklists effectively

Alfred,

Barg-Walkow,

Keebler

et al. 2024

BMJ Qual Saf

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Checklists are a type of cognitive aid used to guide task performance; they have been adopted as an important safety intervention throughout many high-risk industries. They have become an ubiquitous tool in many medical settings due to being easily accessible and perceived as easy to design and implement. However, there is a lack of understanding for when to use checklists and how to design them, leading to substandard use and suboptimal effectiveness of this intervention in medical settings. The design of a checklist must consider many factors including what types of errors it is intended to address, the experience and technical competencies of the targeted users, and the specific tools or equipment that will be used. Although several taxonomies have been proposed for classifying checklist types, there is, however, little guidance on selecting the most appropriate checklist type, nor how differences in user expertise can influence the design of the checklist. Therefore, we developed an algorithm to provide guidance on checklist use and design. The algorithm, intended to support conception and content/design decisions, was created based on the synthesis of the literature on checklists and our experience developing and observing the use of checklists in clinical environments. We then refined the algorithm iteratively based on subject matter experts’ feedback provided at each iteration. The final algorithm included two parts: the first part provided guidance on the system safety issues for which a checklist is best suited, and the second part provided guidance on which type of checklist should be developed with considerations of the end users’ expertise.

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Meaningful use and good catches: More appropriate metrics for checklist effectiveness

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Surgical Safety Checklists in Children’s Surgery: Surgeons’ Attitudes and Review of the Literature

Surgical Safety Checklists in Children’s Surgery: Surgeons’ Attitudes and Review of the Literature

A challenge‐response endoscopic sinus surgery specific checklist as an add‐on to standard surgical checklist: an evaluation of potential safety and quality improvement issues

Checking all the boxes: a checklist for when and how to use checklists effectively

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