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== Introduction ==

 

'''''The Checklist Manifesto''''' argues that well-designed checklists help experts manage complexity, reduce avoidable errors, and deliver more reliable results in high-stakes domains from surgery to aviation and construction.<ref name="Mac2009" /> The book blends reportage and case studies in plain, New Yorker-style prose. It is organized as nine chapters that move from the problem of complexity to field tests and adoption.<ref name="OCLC465378674" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The checklist manifesto : how to get things right (table of contents) |url=https://cmc.marmot.org/Record/.b29358127 |website=Colorado Mountain College Library Catalog |publisher=Colorado Mountain College |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> Gawande situates the narrative in the {{Tooltip|World Health Organization}}’s {{Tooltip|Safe Surgery}} program and cites a 19-item surgical checklist study that cut major complications from 11.0% to 7.0% and deaths from 1.5% to 0.8% across eight hospitals.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Haynes |first=Alex B. |author2=Weiser, Thomas G. |author3=Berry, William R. |author4=Lipsitz, Stuart R. |author5=Breizat, Abdel-Hadi S. |author6=Dellinger, E. Patchen |date=29 January 2009 |title=A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population |journal=The New England Journal of Medicine |volume=360 |issue=5 |pages=491–499 |doi=10.1056/NEJMsa0810119 |url=https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0810119 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> The title reached the ''{{Tooltip|New York Times}}'' Hardcover Nonfiction list; for the week of 7 March 2010 it ranked No. 13.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hardcover Nonfiction – March 7, 2010 |url=https://www.hawes.com/2010/2010-03-07.pdf |website=Hawes Publications |date=7 March 2010 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref>

 

== Chapters ==

 

''—Note: The above summary follows the Metropolitan Books first U.S. hardcover edition (22 December 2009), ISBN 978-0-8050-9174-8.''<ref name="Mac2009">{{cite web |title=The Checklist Manifesto |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805091748/thechecklistmanifesto/ |website=Macmillan |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="OCLC465378674">{{cite web |title=The checklist manifesto : how to get things right (First edition) |url=https://search.worldcat.org/zh-tw/title/The-checklist-manifesto-%3A-how-to-get-things-right/oclc/465378674 |website=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref>

 

== Background & reception ==

 

🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. {{Tooltip|WHO}} reported large multicountry trials showing roughly one-third reductions in surgical deaths and complications with its checklist, and it now describes the tool as used by a majority of surgical providers worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Checklist helps reduce surgical complications, deaths |url=https://www.who.int/news/item/11-12-2010-checklist-helps-reduce-surgical-complications-deaths |website=World Health Organization |date=11 December 2010 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WHO Surgical Safety Checklist – Tool and resources |url=https://www.who.int/teams/integrated-health-services/patient-safety/research/safe-surgery/tool-and-resources |website=World Health Organization |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> Media coverage and professional outlets (e.g., {{Tooltip|AHRQ PSNet}}) helped translate the book’s argument into other safety-critical sectors, from law to construction, with hospitals and agencies citing it in patient-safety programs.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right |url=https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/checklist-manifesto-how-get-things-right |website=AHRQ Patient Safety Network |publisher=Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |date=13 January 2010 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Captain of the Checklist |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/new-yorker-festival/captain-of-the-checklist |work=The New Yorker |date=18 October 2009 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref>

 

 

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