Tag: Checklists

Exceptional Efforts in Imperfect Circumstances – Celebrated or Lamented?

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Here's a thought starter for a Monday morning - I'm looking forward to hearing your perspectives. A few weeks ago, I heard a leader...

Dr. Don Berwick, Supporter of Lean Healthcare, to be New Obama...

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Dr. Donald Berwick (bio), founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has reportedly named by President Obama to head Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

Guest Post: Captain Sully Talks about Lean and Healthcare Safety

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Mark's note: I am thrilled to be able to bring you this guest post from my friend and fellow lean healthcare author Naida Grunden....

Of 777s and Heart Rate Monitors

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In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew Resource Management," as written about in...

How Checklists Help Me Produce and Host My Podcasts

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Regular followers of my blog know that I've been creating audio podcasts since 2006. Later today (at 3 PM), I am publishing #86 in...

My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean

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I've written about many of these ideas and themes before in various blog posts, but I wanted to consolidate my thoughts on the Lean...

A New App to Download, Events to Attend, and a Book...

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Today's post is a few Friday odds and ends about a new thing I've been involved, events I'm attending, and a new book I'm...

Dr. Atul Gawande and Checklists on “The Daily Show”

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Here is a nice 5-minute introduction to the topic without too much mockery from Jon Stewart! Stewart even makes a Star Wars reference - an...

Did this WSJ reviewer even read “The Checklist Manifesto?”

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I just finished Dr. Atul Gawande's latest book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I believe that this book is the single...

Dr. Gawande & Checklists Featured on NPR

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Thanks to my friend Amber for telling me about Dr. Atul Gawande's interview on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday. Regular readers of the blog will...

The Latest on Reducing Preventable Infections – Boston, Appleton, and DC

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We had some local Boston news about hospitals reducing infection rates, including dangerous blood stream infections that result from central lines. Several academic medical centers...

Surgical Checklists in the News!

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WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors : NPR A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths Thanks to long-time readers Chet and Andrew...