Rather than executing checklists (never mind online quizzes), we want our employees to exercise judgment.
The result set of an executed eligibility checklist includes demographics, encounter scheduling information and details concerning the criteria met by patients who may be eligible for enrollment in the indicated trial.
Instead of spending time thinking about how to capture every detail in a book, think about building a concise checklist and repeatedly educating employees on tactics to execute the checklist.
First, OR staff were sometimes confused about how to properly execute the checklist.
There are differing approaches to executing the checklist, 8 with varying degrees of redundancy, but all methods include action and verification steps.
Despite suggestions of swans and firebirds, most of the choreography is in service of the props, executed with the rhythm of a checklist.
And because our processes and systems are executed the same way every time, supplemented with detailed checklists and automated, we don't miss steps, which provides comfort and predictability for both our team and our investors.
However, as soon as time permits, the checklist is used to confirm that the steps were executed as required.
Static parallel checklists are completed by one operator (person) and executed as a series of read-and-do tasks.
When the patient is not readily revived or responding as expected, the team will refer to their checklists or algorithms to make sure the steps have been executed properly, and that they have not forgotten anything.
This checklist was explicitly designed to be modified for widely varying contexts and executed in a short time frame to maintain feasibility.
