Recent events have put the simple medical checklist in the spotlight. For instance, the Department of Health and Human Services last summer highlighted work among Michigan hospital ICUs to sharply ...

The American Medical Association’s Center for Patient Safety offers a free leadership checklist for participation in a patient safety organization. The checklist is designed to help healthcare leaders ...

The latest version of the checklist was released in Sept. 2009. While the content of the 19 checklist items remains unchanged from the previous version, the wording of each checklist item has been ...

The CDC offers a free checklist for hospitals to ensure optimal antibiotic prescribing as well as limit overuse and misuse of antibiotics. The checklist includes elements that have been shown to be ...

A checklist for leaders to evaluate their organization’s preparation for participating in a patient safety organization is available for free from the American Medical Association’s Center for Patient ...

On May 17, HHS’s Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and FDA issued a joint, final guidance on written procedures for institutional review boards (IRBs). The agencies are both responsible for ...

In hospital trauma centers, where life-or-death decisions are made in seconds, fractions of a second it takes even the best doctors to remember “what’s next?” could be pivotal. With the goal of saving ...

EVOLUTION: Checklists don’t just prevent mistakes – they create a shared language for teams, making it easier to collaborate, onboard newcomers, and adapt as projects evolve. August 28, 2025 I have ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 21, 2018 ” A SoBran division has unveiled a new checklist tool designed to help laboratories prepare for site visits from the nonprofit Association for Assessment and ...