The Power of the Checklist

By Steve V

This article in The New Yorker has absolutely nothing that is obviously about communications, but it is one of the most fascinating pieces I have read in a long time. In a way, it is about communications though: the power of simple, straightforward – even obvious – communication.

“In the Keystone Initiative’s first eighteen months, the hospitals saved an estimated hundred and seventy-five million dollars in costs and more than fifteen hundred lives. The successes have been sustained for almost four years—all because of a stupid little checklist.”

Click here for the whole article by Atul Gawande.

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