TY - BOOK AU - Atul Gawande TI - Checklist Manifesto: How to get things right SN - 9780143423225 U1 - 610.289 GAW-C PY - 2014/// PB - Penguin Books KW - Emergency medicine -- Personal narratives. Clinical competence -- Personal narratives. Lists. N2 - 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 ER -