{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/use-a-checklist-for-omissions-not-for-pretending-judgment-disappeared",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0486",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Use a checklist for omissions, not for pretending judgment disappeared",
  "summary": "A checklist is excellent at remembering steps and mediocre at making uncertainty vanish.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Put routine critical actions and common omissions on the checklist. Keep novel diagnosis, tradeoffs and uncertain judgment as explicit decision points with supporting evidence rather than yes/no boxes. If a checklist grows into a textbook, split reference guidance from the small execution list.",
  "limits": [
    "Some structured decision aids legitimately contain judgment prompts; the distinction is whether the box itself resolves the uncertainty."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-human-factors-error-resistant-work"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-00B858BD64B5D6DA"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Checklists are principally suited to ensuring important routine steps are not omitted and should not be assumed to replace expert reasoning in novel problems.",
      "source_id": "RS-00B858BD64B5D6DA",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "A well-designed checklist can still include decision prompts; the warning is against reducing every judgment to a tick box.",
      "locator": "Background and cognitive basis"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A complex decision is being converted into a long checklist because checklists feel reliable."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Some structured decision aids legitimately contain judgment prompts; the distinction is whether the box itself resolves the uncertainty."
  ],
  "example": "A deployment checklist can require backup verification and rollback readiness while leaving architecture risk assessment as a separate review.",
  "check": "The checklist reliably catches routine omissions without claiming to automate expert reasoning.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-00B858BD64B5D6DA",
      "title": "Checklists",
      "url": "https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/checklists"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-76433B7AE15B054C",
      "title": "Design routine work so ordinary human slips do less damage",
      "url": "/collections/design-routine-work-so-ordinary-human-slips-do-less-damage"
    }
  ]
}