Re:At $107 per life... (Score 1)

Here's a clear measure of lives saved from rules such as checklists (although it probably covers more than just checklists): You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care, published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. See in particular page 9 of the pdf, which says adoption of a systems-based approach caused the death rate from surgical anesthesia to drop by over two orders of magnitude without any corresponding advance in medical understanding of anesthesia.