> While the hc QI community was getting over checklists because of the number of studies showing it to be a largely ineffective intervention, he ignored the pile and kicked off a second wave
It seems like there are problems getting people to agree to do checklists or keep with them, but if you come up with the right checklist and get the right buy-in, you do see fewer complications.
I just thumbed through meta-analyses on Google scholar and this definitely doesn't look like the results of recent research into checklists (e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.9381)
It seems like there are problems getting people to agree to do checklists or keep with them, but if you come up with the right checklist and get the right buy-in, you do see fewer complications.
(If anyone wants to look at the recent research for themselves, here's the Google Scholar search I used: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?as_ylo=2014&q=checklist+su...)