Boeing dismissed concerns about a powerful new anti-stall system on the 737 Max for months, insisting that pilots could deal with any problems by following a checklist of emergency procedures.
As I described in a previous article on knowledge transfer, helicopter pilots go through a checklist of specific procedures before they take off.
This could have a checklist of tests, procedures, and interventions, which may be required for management, including collecting the relevant indicators for a CT scan.
While simple measures, such as a checklist of infection control procedures and observer, have been shown to eliminate invasive catheter infection in the intensive care unit [9], a paucity of such data exist in the ED.
As Sullenberger began a turn to the left to return to the field, Skiles began working on the checklist of air restarting procedures.
Staff will complete a case report form (CRF) at each clinic visit, which contains a checklist of the trial procedures.
Before the actual work, data collectors and supervisors were given intensive training for two days about the objective of the study, the format of the questionnaire and checklist, procedures of observation and methods of reporting to supervisors and principal investigators.
In the UK hospitals, the checklist was used in all procedures that we observed, documentation was fully completed and interviewees reported internal audits showing checklist use in over 90% of procedures.
Strengths of this study include the novelty of the concept, the large variety of procedures the checklist was tested in, and the use of different sources of information (literature study, expert panel, observation techniques, evaluation interviews) to develop and study the checklist [ 23].
