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How One Hospital Cut Medication Errors 80 Percent With a Single Checklist
In this episode of The Operator's Manual, Lucas and Luna explore how a single checklist—inspired by airline cockpit procedures—cut medication errors by 80 percent at a major teaching hospital. They trace the problem from a specific incident (a patient receiving ten times the correct dose of a blood thinner) to the operational fix: a five-item pre-administration checklist that took 17 seconds to complete. The hosts discuss why checklists work in high-stakes environments, how the hospital overcame pushback from senior nurses and physicians, and what the data showed after six months. Along…
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