The OHRP Study Saved 1,500 Lives

OHRP shut down the study and said it could not restart until they got consent from every patient, doctor and nurse involved. Artul Gawande had recently published Checklist Manifesto and become a beloved public intellectual. He agreed to take the case public and shop it around to journalists and politicians. The experiment resumed and found the nurse-in-force checklist saved about 1,500 lives over the course of the study.