Surgical checklists, an approach drawn from commercial aviation and other high-risk industries, gained popularity when the World Health Organization promoted them in 2007 under the leadership of surgeon and author Dr. Atul Gawande. He further popularized them in an influential book, The Checklist Manifesto, published in 2009.
But they have yet to become widely or systematically adopted. As a result, there's not much data on their effectiveness, which in turn complicates the sales pitch to persuade organizations to invest the time and resources required to make them work.
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