"Check" this out: a review of Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto

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• Personal Author:
  Cunningham, Thomas R. ; Gravina NE ; Cunningham, Thomas R. ; Gravina NE
• Description:
  Know-how and sophistication have increased remarkably across almost all our realms of endeavor, and as a result so has our struggle to deliver on them. You see it in the frequent mistakes authorities make when hurricanes or tornadoes or other disasters hit. You see it in the 36 percent increase between 2004 and 2007 in lawsuits against attorneys for legal mistakes--the most common being simple administrative errors, like missed calendar dates and clerical screwups, as well as errors in applying the law. You see it in flawed software design, in foreign intelligence failures, in our tottering banks--in fact, in almost any endeavor requiring mastery of complexity and of large amounts of knowledge. Fortunately, as The Checklist Manifesto describes, one potential solution for reducing or eliminating errors in complex jobs is rather simple--a checklist. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Diagnosis Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Diagnostic-techniques Occupational-psychology Psychological-reactions Standards Workers Workplace-studies
• ISSN:
  0160-8061
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  271-277
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037987
• Citation:
  J Organ Behav Manage 2010 Jul; 30(3):271-277
• Email:
  negravina@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Organizational Behavior Management
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5b5a2196c9bd0efc166db4ab6bf63de5c97d4600b9b91cca1b0791e6d5a3127f78270d6d4e8564044010ee9ee351c33cb3cb00b35ec51738abe1e156e467ed61
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191871/cdc_191871_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 147.37 KB ]