Insights from the Armstrong Institute
One of the world’s leading authorities on patient safety, Peter Pronovost served a the director of the Armstrong Institute, as well as senior vice president for patient safety and quality, at Johns Hopkins Medicine from 2011 until January 2018.
Trine Engebretsen was clinging to life. It was the early 1980s, and the girl had a genetic liver disorder that would kill her if she… Read More »It’s Not All About the Checklist: The Power of Believing and Belonging
Selecting the right hospital to receive care can save your life, lower your risks of getting a complication, or even reduce your financial hardship. The… Read More »Why It’s So Hard to Pick the Right Hospital
Talking to health care professionals about the importance of loving your patients and colleagues — as I often do — might raise eyebrows. How can we be… Read More »Patient Care: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Fifteen-year anniversaries often come and go without fuss, overlooked in favor of those we can mark in full decades. Yet recently, at Johns Hopkins and… Read More »Patient Safety at 15: How Much Have We Grown?
Would my white lab coat be better put to use when I carve the Christmas roast than when seeing patients? After all, we know that… Read More »Why White Coats Should Be Optional
Like a pro golfer swears by a certain brand of clubs or a marathon runner has a chosen make of shoes, surgeons can form strong… Read More »To Engage Physicians in Cost Savings, Start with Quality
In this post, I present the case that U.S. News & World Report’s patient safety score, a component of its annual Best Hospitals rankings, has… Read More »Potential Bias in U.S. News Patient Safety Scores
Since undergoing a double-lung transplant at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in December 2011, Podge Reed Jr. has had four medical admissions, two surgical admissions, eight… Read More »The Patient Wish List
In May, three academic medical systems turned up the heat on a long-simmering debate about the link between surgical volumes and quality of care. Leaders… Read More »Weighing the Need for Surgical Volume Thresholds
Most of us would agree that there aren't enough valid and meaningful health care quality measures to guide patients' choices of hospitals and physicians. While… Read More »The Surgeon Scorecard and the Need for Measurement Standards