Safety checklists have been considered as a promising tool for improving patient safety for decades. Computerized checklists have better performance compared with paper-based checklists, though there are barriers to their adoption. Given previous literature, it is still unclear what assists implementations and their challenges. To address this issue, this paper summarizes the implementation of two successful computerized checklist implementations in two countries for two different clinical scenarios and analyzes their facilitators and challenges.
Keywords: Checklist; Clinical; Decision Support Systems; Patient Safety.