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Re:Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attribu... by d1str0 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:19PM (#19685069)
So the issue isn’t with checklists, it’s with policy.
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Re:Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attribu... by falsedan on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:29AM (#19690826)
policy is just a way to record a decision-making process. Yet he issue is that getting the right information to be reasonably sure it’s safe to remove a checklist item is hard and made harder the longer ago the item was added
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