Checklist Manifesto

Question 1

How many people a year do medical errors kill?

Answer 1

Annually, medical errors disable at least 7 million people and kill 1 million worldwide — the equivalent of six sold-out 747s crashing every day, killing everyone on board

Question 2

Intensive care succeeds only when what?

Answer 2

we hold the odds of doing harm low enough for the odds of doing good to prevail

Question 3

the average ICU patient requires how many actions a day?

Answer 3

178

Question 4

error rate for an ICU nurse-to-patient action

Answer 4

1%

Question 5

how many errors a day on average occur with an ICU patient

Answer 5

2

Question 6

ICUs put how many lines in patients per year?

Answer 6

5 million

Question 7

after 10 days, what percent of lines become infected?

Answer 7

4%

Question 8

How many line infections occur in how many people per year in the US?

Answer 8

80k

Question 9

Line infections are fatal what percent of the time?

Answer 9

5 and 28 percent of the time, depending on how sick one is at the start

Question 10

Those who survive line infections spend on average how much longer in the ICU?

Answer 10

1 week

Question 11

After 10 days with a urinary catheter, what percent of American ICU patients develop a bladder infection?

Answer 11

4%

Question 12

After 10 days on a ventilator, what percent develop bacterial pneumonia, and resulting in death what percent of the time?

Answer 12

6%; 40-45%