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• n  a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted

• Pronovost says the checklist protocol could be rolled out nationwide within two years for less than $3 million.
• This practice was sharply criticized by the Webster commission, which also faulted the background unit's checklist mentality and failure to analyze contradictory answers.
• A new report finds that when surgical teams followed a straightforward surgical-safety checklist, patient death rates fell by half and complications by more than a third.

News & Articles

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• Knowcross Solutions introduces the smartphone version of checklists - TRITON Checklist
  Knowcross Solutions has launched TRITON Checklist, a powerful new module to the TRITON suite of applications. TRITON Checklist is a mobile application that allows hoteliers to conduct all inspections from a smartphone and automatically email completed inspections to the management. Using this app, hoteliers can save time, paper and ensure adherence to brand standards.
  June 12, 2013 - Hospitality Net
• Hawthorne Movers Provide a Checklist for Commercial Moves
  Los Angeles Commercial Movers share their checklist for commercial movers in new blog. (PRWeb June 12, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/officemoversinla/cheapmoversinla/prweb10819384.htm
  June 12, 2013 - PRWeb
• What to do before, during and after a storm
  Are you prepared for severe weather? See this checklist from the National Weather Service to brush up on your severe weather knowledge.
  June 12, 2013 - WTHR Indianapolis

Quotes

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• Margaret Chan in BBC News
  Margaret Chan, WHO director general, said: "Preventable surgical injuries and deaths are now a growing concern. Using a checklist is the best way to reduce surgical errors and improve patient safety."
• Zac Efron in Entertainmentwise
  Anywho, of his future plans, Zac told Teen Vogue: "I don't want to jinx it, you know? My checklist is infinite. There's nothing I wouldn't try."
• Christine Lagarde in People's Daily Online
  It is a checklist ...... that clearly we are trying to push at the global level and on which there was massive support within the group this morning,French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, whose country holds the EU rotating presidency,...