The checklist--a tool for error management and performance improvement.

By Brigette M. Hales, Peter J. Pronovost. Journal of critical care, 2006

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Co-Designing Checklists to Understand Organizational Challenges and Opportunities around Fairness in AI (2020, methodology): “One participant, when shown an example of a surgical checklist [47], noted that “it would be really nice to have some sort of a checklist or something that can tell us about easy pitfalls to fall through.”
A User's Guide to Debiasing (2014, background): “A checklist provides “a list of action items or criteria arranged in a systematic manner, allowing the user to record the presence/absence of the individual item listed to ensure that all are considered or completed” (Hales & Pronovost, 2006).”