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This page contains all of the posts and discussion on MemeStreams referencing the following web page: Annals of Medicine: The Checklist: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker. You can find discussions on MemeStreams as you surf the web, even if you aren't a MemeStreams member, using the Threads Bookmarklet.

Annals of Medicine: The Checklist: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
by k at 2:44 pm EST, Dec 19, 2007

I asked him how much it would cost for him to do for the whole country what he did for Michigan. About two million dollars, he said, maybe three, mostly for the technical work of signing up hospitals to participate state by state and coördinating a database to track the results. He’s already devised a plan to do it in all of Spain for less.

“We could get I.C.U. checklists in use throughout the United States within two years, if the country wanted it,” he said.

So far, it seems, we don’t. The United States could have been the first to adopt medical checklists nationwide, but, instead, Spain will beat us. “I at least hope we’re not the last,” Pronovost said.

[ Astonishing article... extremely interesting, if somewhat discouraging. -k]


 
 
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