← Back

The Checklist

The Checklist

The considerable impact of introducing checklists in intensive care units in the U.S.

Author(s): Atul Gawande

Publisher: The New Yorker

Date of publication: 2007

Read this article on the publisher's website [The New Yorker]

Synopsis

This article is one of the sources used in Manageris’ synopses:

How to take safety to the next level?

How to take safety to the next level?

As atypical as they may be, the high-reliability organizations—aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, space travel installations, etc.—are characterized by a remarkably low number of incidents. How to learn from their methods to raise the bar on safety?
216b – Synthèse (8 p.) Risk
Take responsibility for change

Take responsibility for change

To make things change, we have a lot more leeway than we think. How can we take responsibility for creating the changes we want to see implemented?
246a – Synthèse (8 p.) Change management