carefully analyzing a patient’s risk of falling is probably a good idea. It needs to be quicker, though, because the irony right now is, the time I spend on the computer carefully documenting a patient’s fall risk is time I could physically spend in the patient’s room talking about how we can work together to keep him upright and on his feet. Designers of electronic charting systems don’t seem to understand that checklists themselves are not the innovation, because checklists are not substitutes for care. The real innovation is having staff use lists to consistently create the safest and
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