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'It honestly changed

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the simplest of techniques:

Steven Levitt,

the humble checklist. First author of Freakonomics

introduced by the US Air

Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now they are being adopted in the NHS and hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches.

Gawande explains how checklists actually work to effect striking and immediate improvements - and he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to

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