“Elizabeth Bailey’s book could save your life. And it’s cool. I’ve been pushing for people to understand how checklists work and can be made to empower them. Bailey has done precisely this for patients — that is for all of us.”
Surgeon, writer, public health researcher and New York Times bestselling author of The Checklist Manifesto
“Elizabeth Bailey’s book puts a human face on the devastating toll medical errors have on patients and their families and clearly shows that when we use checklists to improve the quality of care, we save lives. I have seen the power of this important tool; using checklists in a hospital setting, we nearly eliminated blood-stream infections, a preventable disease that kills about as many people every year as breast cancer. Imagine what the simple checklists in this book can do for you.”
MD. PhD. FCCM, co-author of Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out
“The Patient’s Checklist should be in the hands of all families in the event of a hospital stay. The information could save your or a loved one’s life.”
M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Women’s Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
From a trip to the emergency room to open heart surgery, all patients can experience not just perplexing and impersonal care but serious communication failures among care providers and basic safety issues that can put them at risk. That’s why The Patient’s Checklist is so important. These checklists can play a big role in helping patient and family both guard against human error and improve communication and compassion in hospital care.
