With information on surgical checklist use in hospitals finally public on Hospital Compare, about 12 percent, or nearly 500 hospitals, can’t definitively say whether certain checklists are being used.

When to use paper checklists, versus digital checklists, depends on circumstances, and the people involved in a task. For example, when multiple people collaborate in processing a job, task, or ...

In the ten years since Dr. Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto, the use of checklists has proliferated in fields from medicine to investing. Gawande, a surgeon, made a particular focus on ...