The checklist manifesto : how to get things right / Atul Gawande.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Picador, 2011, c2010Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: xviii, 215 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780312430009 (pbk.) :; 0312430000 (pbk.)Subject(s): Clinical Competence | Emergency Medicine | Intensive Care Units | Medical care -- Quality control | ListsLOC classification: RA 399 .A1 | G39 2011Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 610.28/GAWANDE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Donated by Chris Connors | 39844500015330 |
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609.7/LANDON A Native American thought of it : amazing inventions and innovations / | 609/INV Inventions that changed the world./ | 609/PETROSKI The evolution of useful things / | 610.28/GAWANDE The checklist manifesto : | 610.92/PRUSINER Madness and memory : | 610.973/RIT Health and medicine / | 610/WILBUR Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800 / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-209)
The problem of extreme complexity -- The checklist -- The end of the master builder -- The idea -- The first try -- The checklist factory -- The test -- The hero in the age of checklists -- The save.
Reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist now being used in medicine, aviation, the armed services, homeland security, investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.
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