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

The average rating for Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-26 00:00:00 Fred Goff Such a shame. Pronovost is clearly a master, and the man perhaps most responsible for the current visibility of quantitatively robust patient safety work, and the revival of the checklist as a useful tool. But this book is schlock. It feels cobbled together, sometimes out of of press clippings where they didn't even both to change the tense of the verbs. Large chunks are inconceivably self-congratulatory, or spent extolling Hopkins as the "Greatest Hospital Ever." We learn almost nothing about the process and challenge of developing interesting ideas. We learn little about the content of the ideas. It's just sad. If you want to learn more about why Checklists are a good thing, go read Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto. If you want to read intellectual autobiography, I still like Watson's The Double Helix. I'm not sure what role this book has, except as an example of smart people writing bad books.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-03-09 00:00:00 Lyle Estep This book starts with a very compelling story of how a child dies as a result of flawed communication systems within a hospital. Gripping - but I have to keep putting it down because I get so mad. The last half of the book was about changing systems and culture. Not as engaging as the personal stories at the beginning.