Managing complexity and reducing errors

As far as I can tell from the excerpts that I have read, Atul Gawande makes a decent case for using checklists in medicine. ( google for the checklist manifesto )

Also see http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0810119 and http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/ss_checklist/en/

There are also some videos on youtube.

I plan to use the clinical pathways as "checklists" and to this end have created a keyboard shortcut that will bring up a map.

So, say I am typing

adalimumab cl:

This will bring up the maps editor and scan for any with the word adaliumab present and display the first map present that does. Because it is keyboard driven, it should be faster than using a mouse to navigate the maps.

Here's how to create a clinical pathway or checklist

http://screencast.com/t/OGRjN2JhN

These look pretty but the fact that I have to invoke them manually is an issue. And the same applies for guidelines.

Maybe I should automatically display them on the ancillary screen somehow.

A fairly recent article on checklists http://www.modernmedicine.com/moder...Article/detail/658187?contextCategoryId=40159

And an excerpt from the original paper

Some testing ... seems to work.

Now need to work out how users can define these checklists ....