Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
If you happen to be one of the 90,000 Americans admitted on any given day to what Atul Gawande elegantly terms “the glassed bay of an ICU,” you might wish you’d never known some of what he reveals in his The Checklist Manifesto.
Every patient in an ICU, according to one study, requires on average 178 tasks a day for his care, from administering medication to suctioning lungs. Each task poses a risk. The error rate is low – two percent …
