Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

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“The tough-minded and revealing story of a leading doctor’s crusade against medical harm…Fascinating reading.” -Atul Gawande, author of The Checklist Manifesto.

First, do no harm. Doctors, nurses, and clinicians swear by this code of conduct. Yet, medical errors are made every single day-avoidable mistakes that often cost lives. Inspired by two such mistakes, Dr. Peter Pronovost made it his personal mission to improve patient safety and make preventable deaths a thing of the past, one hospital at a time.

Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals shows how Dr. Pronovost started a revolution by creating a simple checklist that standardized a common ICU procedure. His reforms are being implemented in all fifty states and have saved hundreds of lives by cutting hospital-acquired infection rates by 70%. Atul Gawande profiled Dr. Pronovost’s reforms in a New Yorker article and his bestselling book The Checklist Manifesto is based upon Dr. Pronovost’s success in patient safety. But Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals is the real story: an inspiring, thought-provoking, accessible insider’s narrative about how doctors and nurses are improving patient care for all Americans, today.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume; 1st edition (25 January 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0452296862
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0452296862
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 227 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.21 x 1.73 x 20.04 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Best Sellers Rank: #683,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #16,813 in Health, Fitness & Nutrition #17,206 in Healthy Living & Wellness #24,013 in Biographies & Autobiographies (Books)
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