What???!!!!

From the Baltimore Sun article:

When Dr. Peter Pronovost assembled a checklist of proven safety procedures and required critical care doctors to use it, the results were indisputable: It prevented infections and saved lives.

But the veteran Johns Hopkins safety researcher also drew critical scrutiny from government regulators. In a decision last month that upset his colleagues nationwide, the federal Office of Human Research Protections said using a safety checklist - and studying its effects - amounted to conducting an experiment without a patient's consent.

Click here to access the article (and to read the offending checklist).