Becker's Healthcare October 30, 2023
Hospital executives often rave about aviation’s success in dramatically lowering the number and scope of accidents over the last 50 years — but when it comes to vastly improving safety, the healthcare industry has failed to leave the runway.
Other than medical facilities and airplanes, there aren’t many places where a small error can lead to numerous fatalities. Thus, healthcare leaders have long been looking up to aviation. In 2007, Atul Gawande, MD, wrote a popular article in The New Yorker that highlighted why hospitals should adopt the aviation industry’s heavy reliance on safety checklists.
Dr. Gawande, who now works at Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston, expanded on the idea in his 2009 book, “The Checklist Manifesto:...
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