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'''''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 |author7=et al. |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>

🖋️ '''Author & writing'''. {{Tooltip|Atul Gawande}} is a surgeon at {{Tooltip|Brigham and Women’s Hospital}}, a longtime staff writer at ''{{Tooltip|The New Yorker}}'', and founder/chair of {{Tooltip|Ariadne Labs}}; his professional vantage point and reporting background shape the book’s voice and cases.<ref>{{cite web |title=Atul Gawande – Contributor page |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/atul-gawande |website=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Atul Gawande – Profile |url=https://www.ariadnelabs.org/profile/atul-gawande/ |website=Ariadne Labs |publisher=Ariadne Labs |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> The project grew alongside the {{Tooltip|WHO}} {{Tooltip|Safe Surgery}} initiative, whose 19-item checklist underpins the book’s core case study and provides its empirical through-line.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009: Safe Surgery Saves Lives |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143243/ |website=NCBI Bookshelf |publisher=World Health Organization |date=2009 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref><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 |author7=et al. |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> Structurally, the book proceeds through nine chapter-length essays—on complexity, the checklist idea, testing, and scale-up—written in accessible narrative nonfiction.<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>

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