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Improving care for the ventilated patientSean M Berenholtz
Departments of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:195-204. 2004....- Assessing the effectiveness of critical pathways on reducing resource utilization in the surgical intensive care unitS Berenholtz
Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287 5842, USA
Intensive Care Med 27:1029-36. 2001..To evaluate the effectiveness of procedure-specific surgical critical pathways on reducing resource utilization in a university surgical intensive care unit (ICU)... 
Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unitSean M Berenholtz
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 32:305-14. 2011..To evaluate the impact of a multifaceted intervention on compliance with evidence-based therapies and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates...- How safe is my intensive care unit? Methods for monitoring and measurementSean M Berenholtz
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 13:703-8. 2007..In this review we describe a conceptual model for monitoring and measuring safety, describe the development of a safety scorecard, and provide an example of how this scorecard is used in the ICU... - Developing quality measures for sepsis care in the ICUSean M Berenholtz
Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:559-68. 2007..Although several therapies improve outcomes in patients with sepsis, rigorously developed measures to evaluate quality of sepsis care in the intensive care unit (ICU) are lacking... - Monitoring patient safetySean M Berenholtz
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1909 Thames Street, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Crit Care Clin 23:659-73. 2007..We present an example of how the safety scorecard from this framework is used to monitor patient safety at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and in over 150 ICUs in Michigan, New Jersey, and Rhode Island... - Predictors of transfusion for spinal surgery in Maryland, 1997 to 2000Sean M Berenholtz
Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 42:183-9. 2002..The purpose of this study was to identify preoperative patient, hospital, and surgeon characteristics associated with transfusion for spinal surgery... - Epidemiology and impact of aspiration pneumonia in patients undergoing surgery in Maryland, 1999-2000Jeffrey H Kozlow
Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 31:1930-7. 2003..Given that the rate of aspiration pneumonia varies among hospitals, we can improve the quality and reduce the costs of care by implementing strategies to reduce the rate of aspiration pneumonia... 
Creating high reliability in health care organizationsPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, 1901 Thames Street, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1599-617. 2006....- Eliminating catheter-related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unitSean M Berenholtz
Departments of Anesthesiology/CCM and Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 32:2014-20. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Multifaceted interventions that helped to ensure adherence with evidence-based infection control guidelines nearly eliminated CR-BSIs in our surgical ICU... - Change in use of allogeneic red blood cell transfusions among surgical patientsJulius Cuong Pham
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Am Coll Surg 207:352-9. 2008..It is unclear if this new evidence has translated into decreased RBC use among surgical patients. The purpose of this study is to measure the change in use of RBCs during the last decade... - Using evidence, rigorous measurement, and collaboration to eliminate central catheter-associated bloodstream infectionsMelinda Sawyer
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 38:S292-8. 2010..If successful, this program will be the first national quality improvement program in the United States with quantifiable and measurable goals... - Qualitative review of intensive care unit quality indicatorsSean M Berenholtz
Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Crit Care 17:1-12. 2002..The value of these measures will be determined by our ability to evaluate our current performance and implement interventions designed to improve the quality of ICU care... - Improving data quality control in quality improvement projectsDale M Needham
Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 21:145-50. 2009..Our objective was to provide a primer on basic data quality control methods appropriate for QI efforts... - Translating evidence into practice: a model for large scale knowledge translationPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, 1909 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
BMJ 337:a1714. 2008 - Reducing health care hazards: lessons from the commercial aviation safety teamPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w479-89. 2009..We propose a similar partnership in the health care community to coordinate national efforts and move patient safety and quality forward... - Implementing standardized operating room briefings and debriefings at a large regional medical centerSean M Berenholtz
Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:391-7. 2009..Several studies have implicated failures of communication and teamwork as the root cause in a high proportion of sentinel events in the OR... - Effect of epsilon aminocaproic acid on red-cell transfusion requirements in major spinal surgerySean M Berenholtz
Department of Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34:2096-103. 2009..Randomized, placebo-controlled trial... - A practical tool to identify and eliminate barriers to compliance with evidence-based guidelinesAyse P Gurses
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:526-32, 485. 2009..A practical tool provides an interdisciplinary approach to identify barriers to guideline compliance and implement actions to eliminate or mitigate the effect of the barriers... - Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational studyPeter J Pronovost
Quality and Safety Research Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1909 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
BMJ 340:c309. 2010..Design Collaborative cohort study to implement and evaluate interventions to improve patients' safety... - Integrating CUSP and TRIP to improve patient safetyMark Romig
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Hospital Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287 7294, USA
Hosp Pract (1995) 38:114-21. 2010..TRIP seeks to identify barriers to implementation of best-practice medicine and standardize care over multiple care units. Components of the 2 programs are not mutually exclusive and both can be used to mitigate potential patient harms... - Developing and pilot testing quality indicators in the intensive care unitPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Crit Care 18:145-55. 2003..To develop and implement a set of valid and reliable yet practical measures of intensive care units (ICU) quality of care in a cohort of ICUs and to estimate, based on current performance, the potential opportunity to improve quality... - Improving patient safety in intensive care units in MichiganPeter J Pronovost
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
J Crit Care 23:207-21. 2008.... - Peripherally inserted central catheters: a randomized, controlled, prospective trial in pediatric surgical patientsDeborah A Schwengel
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Anesth Analg 99:1038-43, table of contents. 2004..Anesthesiologists should consider placing PICCs in patients requiring more than 4 days of in-hospital postoperative care, especially if frequent blood sampling or IV access is required... - Interventions to reduce mortality among patients treated in intensive care unitsPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
J Crit Care 19:158-64. 2004..Using sensitivity analysis to estimate the impact, in terms of patient lives, of the failure to use proven therapies known to reduce mortality in critically ill intensive care unit patients... - Improving the quality of quality improvement projectsSean M Berenholtz
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:468-73. 2010..Our patients deserve nothing less... - Systematic review and analysis of postdischarge symptoms after outpatient surgeryChristopher L Wu
Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Anesthesiology 96:994-1003. 2002 - A framework for health care organizations to develop and evaluate a safety scorecardPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
JAMA 298:2063-5. 2007 - Improving the quality of measurement and evaluation in quality improvement effortsPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Am J Med Qual 23:143-6. 2008 - Preoperative predictors of blood transfusion in colorectal cancer surgeryKent R Nilsson
Department of Anesthesiology/CCM, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-7294, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 6:753-62. 2002..This data can be used by providers in discussions with patients regarding the risks for transfusion and in identifying patients in whom strategies to reduce transfusions should be evaluated... - Association between venous thromboembolism and perioperative allogeneic transfusionKent R Nilsson
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Surg 142:126-32; discussion 133. 2007..Perioperative allogeneic blood product transfusion would be associated with venous thromboembolic complications in surgical patients... - Learning from defects to enhance morbidity and mortality conferencesSean M Berenholtz
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA sberenh1 jhmi edu
Am J Med Qual 24:192-5. 2009..In addition, this approach improved patient care and provided a foundation for our fellows to use to address patient safety defects after fellowship... - Do intensivists in ICU improve outcome?Ralph J Fuchs
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 19:125-35. 2005.... - Incidents relating to the intra-hospital transfer of critically ill patients. An analysis of the reports submitted to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study in Intensive CareUrsula Beckmann
Division of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management, John Hunter Hospital, Locked Bag 1, Newcastle Regional Mail Centre, 2300, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Intensive Care Med 30:1579-85. 2004..Transportation of critically ill patients within the hospital poses important risks. We sought to identify causes, outcomes and contributing factors associated with intra-hospital transport... - Improving patient safety reporting systemsBradford D Winters
Crit Care Med 35:1206-7. 2007
Research Grants
- Aminocaproic Acid and Bleeding in Spinal SurgerySean Berenholtz; Fiscal Year: 2006..These projects and the career development plan described will build a foundation for a successful career as an independent investigator. ..