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Hudson, Chistine Holzmueller, Peter Pronovost, and others have published an article entitled, "Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-Peer Assessment." It is in the American Journal of Medical Quality where, regrettably, only the...
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So I encourage clinicians: Ask patients what you can do to improve the care they received. If you listen, you will learn. Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD is a...
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Originally, 120 years ago the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine was founded to link research and practice by becoming the first medical school linked to a hospital
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Ultimately, the medical institution wants its ICU model to be used around the world and as the groundwork for similar systems to be used in the operating room and other hospital departments. "Hospitals do good, but they can be dangerous places," said...
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“A hospital ICU contains 50 to 100 pieces of electronic equipment that may not communicate to one another nor work together effectively,” says Peter Pronovost, M.D. , Ph.D. , Armstrong Institute director and senior vice president for patient safety and...
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Johns Hopkins Collaborates with Lockheed Martin to Build Next-Generation Intensive Care Unit- 12/14/11
Johns Hopkins Medicine
“A hospital ICU contains 50 to 100 pieces of electronic equipment that may not communicate to one another nor work together effectively,” says Peter Pronovost, M.D. , Ph.D. , Armstrong Institute director and senior vice president for patient safety and...
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Peter Pronovost has exemplified excellence at Hopkins and throughout the country through his patient safety research, implementation and results ... He is the right leader for the Armstrong Institute and will take patient safety to the next level.
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Yes and yes, the answers came back Culture change at hospitals is easier these days with role models like Ascension and Baylor and with safety checklists like the one developed by Johns Hopkins’ critical care specialist Peter Pronovost [link:...
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Dr. Peter Pronovost, Professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, discusses his paradigm changing medical checklist concept that has greatly reduced adverse events in hospitals. Starting with reducing central line...
About Peter Pronovost
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Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery and is Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. Full Article
