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Early last year, Marc Litt, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, was presented six binders of documents - hundreds of pages each - pertaining to a high-profile investigation. Lawyers wanted to know if Litt would be willing to bring what looked to be a juicy case and they wanted to meet the next...
...checklist comprised 19 items to be carried out throughout surgery: seven before anesthesia is administered, seven just before the first incision and the rest before the patient leaves the operating room. The study focused on six checklist items, all involving basic safety issues, such as whether the identity of the patient, site and type of surgery were confirmed correctly, whether enough blood was readily available in case of excess bleeding and whether all the sponges used in surgery were accounted for after the procedure. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
Although having the checklist on hand improved compliance by surgical teams - 57% of the teams involved in the study carried out all six checklist items, up from 34% before the study began - there were many teams that did not adhere completely to the list. That's why Dr. Peter Pronovost, who won a MacArthur "genius" award for creating the concept of medical checklists and studying them in intensive-care units, remains skeptical of the study's remarkable results. "I wish checklists were Harry Potter's magic wand, but they're not," he says. "The behavior changed trivially, not enough...
...stands out as a highly collaborative writer, eager to work closely with directors and actors. It's a legacy of his days on the road with the leftist theater company he co-founded after graduating from Cambridge University. He arrived at Cambridge in 1965 a confirmed Americophile, having spent six mellow months in California. But soon enough he was studying literature with the Marxist critic Raymond Williams, and spending evenings debating how to cause maximum damage to Britain's ruling class - by bombing Buckingham Palace, Parliament or London's financial district...
...Although U.S. college enrollment has climbed, college completion rates have not. Only a third of students who enroll in community colleges - which educate nearly half the undergraduates in the U.S. - get a degree within six years. Hence the interest in this study among such philanthropic powerhouses as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which helped fund the MDRC study. (MDRC, by the way, was created in 1974 by the Ford Foundation and a group of federal agencies; originally named the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, it now goes only by the abbreviation...