Checklist Manifesto : How to get things right / by Atul Gawande

By:

Atul Gawande

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin Books, 2014.Description: 209pISBN:

9780143423225

Subject(s):

Emergency medicine -- Personal narratives. Clinical competence -- Personal narratives. Lists

DDC classification:

610.289 GAW-C

Summary: Acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy to tackleimmensely complex problems with the humblest of techniques: thechecklist. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where anemergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hourunderwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive careunits virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. And he followsthe checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disasterresponse to investment banking, skyscraper construction and businessof all kinds.

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Acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy to tackleimmensely complex problems with the humblest of techniques: thechecklist. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where anemergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hourunderwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive careunits virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. And he followsthe checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disasterresponse to investment banking, skyscraper construction and businessof all kinds.

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