The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

like the fact that he was diabetic though recovering from I bought this for my niece who is a nurse, after my brother's hospital experience was unsatisfactory. Knowledge, history, and status weren't shared by the staff and there was no mechanism for tracking details, like the fact that he was diabetic though recovering from a surgery (related to the diabetes). There were bad estimates of his pain level from the staff not knowing he had had two strokes. And he got a terrible bed sore. My niece works in a different . "Surprisingly readable" according to Richard Baker. I had to read this book for work, and I wasn't looking forward to it. To my surprise it has a very good narrative is quite readable. The examples used are compelling and keep the pages turning. By the end it had me thinking of our processes and I have my team scouring them looking for places where a checklist would be appropriate. If you're concerned about quality, you should give this book a try.. R. BUKOWSKI said The world is getting too complicated. For a book about checklists it's more interesting than you expect. For some readers it could be considered padded, but the different examples (cooking, construction, hospitals, aviation, investing) give the reader practical applications. Checklists allow flexibility and creativity. Checklists can be DO-CHECK or CHECK & DO in style, and don't have to be exhaustive. They are mainly used in areas where procedures can't be skipped and they can allow open space

We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as “the biggest clinical invention in thirty years” (The Independent).. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. And the insights are making a difference. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they ca

Experts need checklists--literally--written guides that walk them through the key steps in any complex procedure. Best Books of the Month, December 2009: With a title like The Checklist Manifesto, it would be natural to expect that Atul Gawande is bent on revolutionizing that most loved-hated activity of workers the world over: the to-do list. --Malcolm Gladwell . This is a toppling revelation made all the more powerful by Gawande's skillful blend of anecdote and practical wisdom as he profiles his own experience as a surgeon and seeks out a wide range of other professions to show that a team is only as strong as its checklist--by his definition, a way of organizing that empo