H. Gehlbach is associate professor, Department of Education, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2852-2666. A.R. Artino Jr is professor of medicine and deputy director, Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education, Department of Medicine, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2661-7853.
Acad Med. 2018 Mar;93(3):360-366. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002083.
Checklists can mitigate a multitude of high-cost mistakes in fields ranging from surgery to aviation. As part of a standard protocol, checklists may provide many benefits, including improved equity and communication among team members and more efficient integration of different processes during complex tasks. Mostly, though, checklists serve as easy, efficient means to remind professionals of what they already know but can easily forget. By improving processes, checklists can reduce procedural errors, miscommunications, and even deaths. Although the stakes of writing a survey are rarely as high as they are for performing surgery or piloting a plane, checklists can improve the quality of surveys in medical education. In this Perspective, the authors propose a survey checklist to serve the same core function as surgical checklists-to reduce error. That is, a survey checklist can help medical education practitioners and researchers gather more accurate responses. Designers can use the checklist in the appendix to guide item creation processes or to help evaluate the quality of existing surveys. The checklist focuses on formulating items, crafting response options, and formatting/organizing the whole survey.
清单可以减轻从手术到航空等各个领域的许多高成本错误。作为标准协议的一部分，清单可能会带来许多好处，包括提高团队成员之间的公平性和沟通效率，以及在复杂任务中更有效地整合不同的流程。不过，清单主要是作为一种简单、高效的方式，提醒专业人员他们已经知道但容易忘记的事情。通过改进流程，清单可以减少程序错误、沟通失误，甚至死亡。虽然写调查的风险很少像进行手术或驾驶飞机那样高，但清单可以提高医学教育调查的质量。在这篇观点文章中，作者提出了一个调查清单，以发挥与手术清单相同的核心功能——减少错误。也就是说，调查清单可以帮助医学教育从业者和研究人员收集更准确的反馈。设计人员可以在附录中使用清单来指导项目创建过程，或帮助评估现有调查的质量。清单侧重于制定项目、设计响应选项以及格式化/组织整个调查。
