{"id":2157,"date":"2018-07-20T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medtech-ingenieur.de\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2021-08-06T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:42:33","slug":"verbandkasten-warnweste-vignette-wie-checklisten-unser-leben-erleichtern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medtech-ingenieur.de\/en\/verbandkasten-warnweste-vignette-wie-checklisten-unser-leben-erleichtern\/","title":{"rendered":"First aid kit, safety vest, vignette\u2026 how checklists make our lives easier"},"content":{"rendered":"

When planning a long car journey, it is a good idea to check a few things: Is the first aid kit still up to date? What is the speed limit in the destination country? Are there safety vests in the vehicle for all passengers? Checklists at the ADAC<\/a> \ud83d\ude0a. And there's no shame in using a checklist; hopefully, the pilot on your holiday plane also looks at his checklist.<\/p>\n

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I was inspired to write this article by Atul Gawande\u2019s book \u201cChecklist strategy<\/strong><\/a>"Gawande is a physician\u2014a surgeon, to be precise\u2014and was appointed to a committee by the WHO to develop a surgical checklist. His book is about the development of this checklist and checklists in general. In it, he demonstrates the usefulness of checklists in complex processes, from financial investments and medical operations to piloting aircraft and processes in high-end restaurants and large-scale modern construction sites.<\/p>\n

As he writes, in a complex environment, experts have to contend with two problems: the fallibility of human memory and the deliberate omission of process steps.<\/p>\n

Checklists help against memory fallibility<\/h3>\n

An example of a checklist that frequently occurs in everyday life is a cooking recipe. And everyone has probably experienced the failure of a cake if they overlook an important ingredient or one of the process steps (letting the dough rise for 15 minutes). On the other hand, if you stick to a recipe, you can be pretty sure that the meal will turn out delicious.<\/p>\n

Checklists prevent omission of process steps<\/h3>\n

The second main problem is that people deliberately omit process steps even though they know they should review something. For example, <\/b>For example, it's no longer checked whether the power supply is correctly dimensioned because it was already adopted from the previous project and has always worked. However, if the checklist in the schematic review asks about the dimensioning of the power supply, then the point will definitely be addressed in the review.<\/p>\n

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Gawande provides impressive examples of the benefits of checklists:<\/p>\n