TY - JOUR
T1 - Systematic review of safety checklists for use by medical care teams in acute hospital settings - limited evidence of effectiveness
AU - Ko, Henry
AU - Turner, Tari
AU - Finnigan, Monica A
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Patient safety is a fundamental component of good quality health care. Checklists have been proposed as a method of improving patient safety. This systematic review, asked In acute hospital settings, would the use of safety checklists applied by medical care teams, compared to not using checklists, improve patient safety?
AB - Patient safety is a fundamental component of good quality health care. Checklists have been proposed as a method of improving patient safety. This systematic review, asked In acute hospital settings, would the use of safety checklists applied by medical care teams, compared to not using checklists, improve patient safety?
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3176176/pdf/1472-6963-11-211.pdf
U2 - 10.1186/1472-6963-11-211
DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-11-211
M3 - Article
SN - 1472-6963
VL - 11
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - BMC Health Services Research
JF - BMC Health Services Research
IS - 211
ER -