The Checklist Manufacto:

A blog about making checklists and cognitive aids that are clear, meaningful, and easy to use.

The goal of this space is to:

Explore the unique design challenges of checklists, cognitive aids, and other decision support tools for healthcare settings
Identify key design principles
Provide information and examples
Share our process and insights
Stimulate interest in research

Who is it for?

Clinicians and administrators who oversee, manage, or shape checklist initiatives
Designers and everyone else who creates or modifies checklists and other clinical support tools
Researchers who study the efficacy of clinical support tools

By sharing our expertise, we aim to help you improve the adoption, efficiency, and efficacy of clinical support tools.

Hope you find it useful.

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MANIFESTO

The Checklist DESIGN Manifesto

MANIFESTO

This is a call to action. Whether or not you have experience thinking about layout and design, join a movement to make care better by making better tools for clinicians, patients, and families.

MANIFESTO

BEST PRACTICE

Five design principles for clinical support tools (a summary)

BEST PRACTICE

A basic understanding of these 5 high-level principles can help you make a better checklist.

BEST PRACTICE

RESOURCE

Learn more: links and recommendations

RESOURCE

A short list of resources to help you learn more about the creation and presentation of content for use in healthcare settings. A work in progress, updated from time to time.

RESOURCE

BEST PRACTICE

Use color with purpose

BEST PRACTICE

How to use color with purpose: 3 rules that can help make your design more usable.

BEST PRACTICE

CASE

Re-designing the SCOAP Surgical Checklist

CASE

Read about the process we followed on the first surgical safety checklist we redesigned. Our design goal was to enable users to quickly see and navigate core pieces of information at a glance: Who does what? When? Under which circumstances?

CASE