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The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right

The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right

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Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Profile Books
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Pages: 256
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ISBN: 1846683130
EAN: 9781846683138
ASIN: 1846683130

Publication Date: January 28, 2010
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Product Description
Explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. This book looks at how taking this idea to the complicated world of surgery produced a 90-second checklist that reduced surgical deaths and complications in eight hospitals around the world by more than one-third.

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Amazon Exclusive: Malcolm Gladwell Reviews The Checklist Manifesto

Malcolm Gladwell was named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2005. He is most recently the author of What the Dog Saw (a collection of his writing from The New Yorker) as well as the bestsellers Outliers, The Tipping Point, and Blink. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of The Checklist Manifesto:

Over the past decade, through his writing in The New Yorker magazine and his books Complications and Better, Atul Gawande has made a name for himself as a writer of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. His latest book, The Checklist Manifesto, begins on familiar ground, with his experiences as a surgeon. But before long it becomes clear that he is really interested in a problem that afflicts virtually every aspect of the modern world--and that is how professionals deal with the increasing complexity of their responsibilities. It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking.

Gawande begins by making a distinction between errors of ignorance (mistakes we make because we don't know enough), and errors of ineptitude (mistakes we made because we don’t make proper use of what we know). Failure in the modern world, he writes, is really about the second of these errors, and he walks us through a series of examples from medicine showing how the routine tasks of surgeons have now become so incredibly complicated that mistakes of one kind or another are virtually inevitable: it's just too easy for an otherwise competent doctor to miss a step, or forget to ask a key question or, in the stress and pressure of the moment, to fail to plan properly for every eventuality. Gawande then visits with pilots and the people who build skyscrapers and comes back with a solution. Experts need checklists--literally--written guides that walk them through the key steps in any complex procedure. In the last section of the book, Gawande shows how his research team has taken this idea, developed a safe surgery checklist, and applied it around the world, with staggering success.

The danger, in a review as short as this, is that it makes Gawande’s book seem narrow in focus or prosaic in its conclusions. It is neither. Gawande is a gorgeous writer and storyteller, and the aims of this book are ambitious. Gawande thinks that the modern world requires us to revisit what we mean by expertise: that experts need help, and that progress depends on experts having the humility to concede that they need help. --Malcolm Gladwell





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4 out of 5 stars Excellent read   July 14, 2010
MacKenzie1 (UK)
Such a simple concept yet superbly written. Interesting anecdotes hold your attention to the end. The medical context is fascinating and illustrates the broader application of the concept. Will definitely buy another book by this writer.


5 out of 5 stars Paradigm Shifting!   July 6, 2010
Stephen Manley
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

It's true that you can learn so much about your field of expertise by taking a 'fresh eyes' approach - this book does just that. I'm not a surgeon. I would recommend this book to anyone involved with implementing change or organisational transformation. All too often in business simple solutions to known problems are dismissed as they are deemed to be 'insulting to our intelliginece' - yet this book offers a refreshing perspective. This provides a great analysis (in a simple-to-read-fashion) into the risks of relying on knowledge and expertise alone in todays knowledge-hungry world. It's difficult not to relate to the significance of this books' revelations - due to many examples coming from a field that we all have some level of experience of - hospitals - even as patients. I would especially recommend this book to anyone inlvolved in implementing 'Lean' who has an audience who is a little tired of hearing Toyota Toyota Toyota references......


5 out of 5 stars A Must Read   July 6, 2010
Val
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is Atul's best book yet, combining a gripping (if at times firghtening) story with some really practical solutions. Although the main focus is the use of checklists in the operating theatre, it covers a range of other issues and has general applicability and principles that apply to everyday life. It should be compulsory reading for health professionals, and the proper introduction of checklists should be mandatory in all our hospitals - any one of us might be the beneficiary one day.


5 out of 5 stars A great discussion on the use a check lists   June 17, 2010
John Nunn (Coventry, U.K.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book puts forward a very compelling case for the use of simple check lists to assist in healthcare. These check lists should not be the controlling factor but should act as an aid to helping improve the levels of care given. This is an idea which has been received quite well in the healthcare profession in the U.K. With checklists for bothe Pre and post operative procedures being part of Lord Darzi's recommendations.

I first came across this book after Atul Gawande appeared on the Daily Show with John Stewart, and the common sense arguments that he put forward for the use of checklists were very compelling. Their use in scenarios such as Pre-flight have been invaluable and saved counless lives, and not by being monotonous list that dumb down procedures but provide an aide memoir to a skilled individual which helps ensure no critical element of a procedure is overlooked.



4 out of 5 stars Very useful for business, life and other areas   May 23, 2010
adventurelover (London, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you have a process at work or at home that involves having several things you need to do, and you want to reduce errors and improve control and outcomes, then I recommend this book.
The author, a U.S. surgeon, decribes his involvement in the development and adoption of the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist, which started to be introduced world wide from early 2009. Use of the Checklist has generally reduced surgery complications by about a third, saving many lives and large amounts of money, a very large improvement from such a simple innovation.
The author describes how checklists have been used for many years in the building industry to put up large complicated buildings properly. He describes how checklists were first developed and used by test pilots in the 1930's, and are now standard procedure when passenger aircraft take off, or are involved in emergencies. He tells how some restaurants use checklists to improve the quality of what is served to customers. He describes how some investment funds are starting to use checklists to make better and quicker investment decisions.The author makes the important point that use of a checklist results in people communicating and acting as a team and thus reduces errors and improves outcomes.
The book does contain brief descriptions of the principles involved in constructing checklists, and reading this book should be sufficient for most users to be able to design their own checklists, and apply them in practice. The book does mention other important points such as separate communications checklists and pause points, for which it is best if you read the book.
I think the contents of the book can be applied generally, at work and in one's personal life. I am a UK accountant, and have applied the principles to introduce new checklists at my place of employment.
I think this book covers an area neglected in business and life; the importance of using a proper checklist to prevent errors and omissions, and improve outcomes.
The book is quite short, well written and exciting at times. A bit of an important milestone in my view.







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