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On the power of checklists, see also Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker (10 December 2007) (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_ga
by dmlorenzetti 17y ago
On the power of checklists, see also Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker (10 December 2007) (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...).
The article describes how medical checklists, especially when nurses are empowered to force doctors to follow them, can improve patient outcomes.
The article also mentions an interesting example of checklists in aviation history.
- qohen 17y ago+1 -- the article is a must-read if you're interested in checklists (or health care, for that matter).
- apu 17y agoThis article is amazing! I am also struck when reading Gawande that in many ways, his writing is like Gladwell's: interesting anecdote, statement of principle, seemingly unrelated anecdote, full description of principle. However, given these same elements, I feel much more convinced by Gawande than by Gladwell. The latter's principles never really seem to follow from the anecdotes quoted; there's a logical gap, or he seems to be misinterpreting the research, or he's found a corner-case, or he's just grasping for straws. Yet, I can't really figure out why I don't feel the same way about Gawande. Perhaps because he writes mostly about medicine, and as a (former?) doctor, he lends more credibility? Whereas Gladwell writes about more everyday and varied things, in which he is obviously not an expert?
- pageman 17y agohere's the abstract of the actual study: http://nejm.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/355/26/2725 http://nejm.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/355/26/2725