ABSTRACT
Many healthcare devices provide reminders to help users manage their treatment and maintain their devices. For example, continuous blood glucose monitoring systems provide people with diabetes with real-time glucose readings and glucose trends that help them better manage their diabetes. Most hospital electronic health record systems display so many safety notifications that clinicians tend to ignore them. In fact, studies suggest that clinicians ignore safety notifications between 49% and 96% of the time. In one instance at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, doctors ignored a relevant reminder about a patient’s drug sensitivity. Safety can depend on people doing the right thing at the right time. Checklists are type of reminder, usually to perform several tasks, and possibly perform them in a prescribed sequence.
