The Checklist

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The Checklist by Atul Gawande.

“…In December, 2006, the Keystone Initiative published its findings in a landmark article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Within the first three months of the project, the infection rate in Michigan’s I.C.U.s decreased by sixty-six per cent. The typical I.C.U.—including the ones at Sinai-Grace Hospital—cut its quarterly infection rate to zero. Michigan’s infection rates fell so low that its average I.C.U. outperformed ninety per cent of I.C.U.s nationwide. In the Keystone Initiative’s first eighteen months, the hospitals saved an estimated hundred and seventy-five million dollars in costs and more than fifteen hundred lives. The successes have been sustained for almost four years—all because of a stupid little checklist…” (emphasis added)

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Comments

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I was blown away by that study too.

[jaine-parr.livejournal.com]

Good study, yawner writing. It took him for-freaking-ever to get to the point.

[reichart.livejournal.com]

You just described the whole New Yorker...

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

The New Yorker isn't for short punchy summaries.

[evelynne.livejournal.com]

That is ASTONISHING. I can't believe there's resistance to this idea. To me, the art of medicine and the need to make checklists to make sure we don't miss the mundane things are almost mutually exclusive.

[h1lary81.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_elle_/]

I love this author!
He wrote 'Complications' which I thoroughly enjoyed.
I just ordered 'Better'.