See also: Atul Garande's books on medical practice in the US: http://atulgawande.com/books/ including "The Checklist Manifesto".
You can have the best people in the world, but without a safety culture that abstains from blame and works to eliminate sources of error over time, your hospital will kill people that didn't have to die.
Now, I've seen studies with positive results and neutral results from checklists, but never one with a negative (harmful) result, so on balance the checklist approach seems useful or at least not harmful.
You can have the best people in the world, but without a safety culture that abstains from blame and works to eliminate sources of error over time, your hospital will kill people that didn't have to die.