One of the paper authors, Jay Pantone, has an Erdos number of 3. That means Anonymous 4chan Poster has an Erdos number of 4. Pretty good for an anonymous 4chan poster.

That is what an .M3U playlist is. If you prefer you can make them by hand or by scripting or whatever.

I may use the same alarm clock. My wife had it when we married, I think as a hand-me-down from her parents.

Yeah, but the guy I know knew Zelazny when they were both originally undergrads (I think). I was mainly surprised to learn that Zelazny wrote a book about a perpetual student, not that perpetual students exist in real life.

Wow. I think I know the guy who inspired that book.

But the workers would have been observed both before and after the checklists were implemented. While possibly improving overall care throughout the study, the Hawthorne effect shouldn't be the cause of the improvements after the checklists were implemented.

Even if one study isn't enough to change standards of care in the entire country (which I agree with), it should be enough to get a hospital somewhere to trial checklists. They should already be collecting infection data and data on the cause of deaths inside the hospital, so there may not be much of a Hawthorne effect then.

In the case of ICU checklists, nurses every year are required to do more and more documentation (an average of 18 pieces of paper for a new non-ICU admission to my hospital) and every checklist or additional page you add to that is taking time away from patient care. So what sounds like a great idea may in fact cause worse outcomes because it puts the nurses focus on a paper rather than their patient.

I agree. Someone should run a study where they first record error rates, infection rates, death rates, etc., then develop checklists based on that data, implement those checklists, and finally record the same data while the checklists are in use. That way you'd have at least some experimental evidence arguing either for or against checklists. Doctors all love evidence-based medicine, so I'm sure they'd get behind whatever the outcome, or at least support additional studies to gather more evidence.

... Reads TFA ... Oh, they already did such a study, and it said checklists improve overall patient care. Awesome. Why don't you believe in evidence-based medicine?