An expert checklist for evaluating children’s software has been designed and validated on ten children in the second grade. In the first part of the investigation ten psychology students evaluated three edutainment games, all of different quality, by means of the checklist. Based on these results the items on the checklist were then analyzed and filtered (analysis of variance, item analysis). I...

There is currently no standardised procedure checklist for bronchoscopies in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, very few hospitals appear to routinely use any form of checklist for these procedures. Conversely, the World Health Organisation surgical checklist has become standard practice in most hospitals, our own included, for all surgical procedures. Based on our own needs, we decided to create...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the outcomes of checklist-driven preoperative briefings and postoperative debriefings during the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical team training program. METHODS A briefing score (1, never started; 2, started then discontinued; 3, maintained on original targeted cases; 4, expanded to other services; 5, briefing all cases, all serv...

We also have made revisions to comply with MOOSE criteria for meta-analysis of observational studies. In the Supplementary Materials section, we added the MOOSE checklist as well as a spreadsheet (Forest_Notes.xls) containing the input data used in the meta-analysis and notes describing details of the individual studies (diagnostic criteria, inclusion of controls, location of the data in the or...

We consider agents who choose by proceeding through a checklist of criteria (for any pair of alternatives the …rst criterion that ranks the pair determines the agent’s choice). Regardless of the discriminating capacity of the criteria in a checklist, choices that maximize complete and transitive preferences can always be the outcome of a ‘quick’checklist that uses a small number of criteria. Fo...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to measure the sensitivity and specificity of a six-item "pregnancy checklist" at excluding early- or luteal-phase pregnancy among women with a negative urine pregnancy test who were initiating contraception. STUDY DESIGN This was a secondary analysis of the Contraceptive CHOICE Project, a prospective cohort study of 9256 women in the St. Louis region. Women who ha...

BACKGROUND Checklists have been shown to improve performance of complex, error-prone processes. To develop a checklist with potential to reduce the likelihood of diagnostic error for patients presenting to the Emergency Room (ER) with undiagnosed conditions. METHODS Participants included 15 staff ER physicians working in two large academic centers. A rapid cycle design and evaluation process ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched the Surgical Safety Checklist in 2008. The introduction of this checklist resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of complications and death in patients undergoing surgery. Consequently, the WHO Surgical Safety checklist is recommended for use by the National Patient Safety Agency for all patients undergoing surgery. However, many invasi...

OBJECTIVE To compare the quality of our services with the World Health Organization (WHO) surgical safety recommendations as a reference, to improve our services if they fall short of that of the WHO, and to publish our additional standards, so that they may be included in future revision of WHO checklist. METHODS We conducted this study on 15th July 2008 at the Armed Forces Hospital, Wadi Al...

Objectives: To develop and test a home food checklist that parents can use to assess the availability and visibility of home healthy and unhealthy foods. Methods: The in-house assessment was conducted in the homes of 82 parents and their children (9.8 ± 2.6 years). The Home Food Checklist was completed by both parents and researchers, and tested for criterion and construct validity. The agreeme...