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How to Get Things Right
Metropolitan Books
January 2010
On Sale: December 22, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0805091742
EAN: 9780805091748
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where
even the most expert professionals struggle to master the
tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced
technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But
in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande
finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques:
the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air
Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of
mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are
being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors
and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to
avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery,
a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of
fatalities by more than a third. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an
emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent
half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness
checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a
type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how
checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate
improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into
fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to
investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses
of all kinds. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved
and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The
Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working
to get things right.
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