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Using a logic model to design and evaluate quality and patient safety improvement programsChristine A Goeschel
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, JohnsHopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 24:330-7. 2012..In this paper, we describe the use of the LFA to systematically design, implement and evaluate large-scale, multi-faceted, quality improvement programs...
Nursing lessons from the MHA keystone ICU project: developing and implementing an innovative approach to patient safetyChristine A Goeschel
Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am 18:481-92, x. 2006..The improvement strategies implemented by Keystone ICU teams, and lessons learned by nurses engaged in the work, are likely to have application in other clinical settings...- Board quality scorecards: measuring improvementChristine A Goeschel
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Am J Med Qual 26:254-60. 2011..If boards and their hospitals are to monitor progress in improving quality, they need more valid outcome measures... - Nursing leadership at the crossroads: evidence-based practice 'Matching Michigan-minimizing catheter related blood stream infections'(*)Christine A Goeschel
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Associate Faculty Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Nurs Crit Care 16:36-43. 2011..The objective of this manuscript is to describe briefly the intervention, and more explicitly the implications for nursing leadership as quality improvement and patient safety become global healthcare priorities... - Monitoring patient safety and quality: a simple frameworkChristine Goeschel
Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Trustee 61:34-5. 2008 - Responsibility for quality improvement and patient safety: hospital board and medical staff leadership challengesChristine A Goeschel
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Quality and Safety Research Group, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1909 Thames, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Chest 138:171-8. 2010.... - 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... 
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...- Monitoring and reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections: a national survey of state hospital associationsDavid J Murphy
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Med Qual 25:255-60. 2010..A national collaborative to address CLABSIs may reduce these infections while building capacity to improve other aspects of health care 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.... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - A research framework for reducing preventable patient harmPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Infect Dis 52:507-13. 2011..Policy makers should use this framework to fill in the knowledge gaps, coordinate efforts among federal agencies, and prioritize research funding... - 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 - The wisdom and justice of not paying for "preventable complications"Peter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
JAMA 299:2197-9. 2008 - Viewing health care delivery as science: challenges, benefits, and policy implicationsPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology, The Quality and Safety Research Group, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, 1909 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Health Serv Res 45:1508-22. 2010..We discuss key challenges implicit in correcting these failures and recommend actions to expedite progress... - Establishing a global learning community for incident-reporting systemsJulius Cuong Pham
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1909 Thames Street, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 19:446-51. 2010..This article offers guidance through a presentation of expert discussions about methods to identify, analyse and prioritise incidents, mitigate hazards and evaluate risk reduction... - The team checkup tool: evaluating QI team activities and giving feedback to senior leadersLisa H Lubomski
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 34:619-23, 561. 2008..This tool can close the gap between hospital executives and frontline QI teams, improve knowledge of team activities, and help teams to identify and remedy barriers to progress... - Measurement of quality and assurance of safety in the critically illPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Clin Chest Med 30:169-79, x. 2009..Future research should seek to create a scientifically sound and feasible safety scorecard and improve performance... - ReCASTing the RCA: an improved model for performing root cause analysesJulius Cuong Pham
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Med Qual 25:186-91. 2010..Teams that evaluate intervention effectiveness are independent of those that implement the intervention. This framework seeks to improve the RCA process and provide further insights into advancing patient safety... - 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... - 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... - The harm susceptibility model: a method to prioritise risks identified in patient safety reporting systemsJulius Cuong Pham
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 19:440-5. 2010..Although they have succeeded in identifying errors (over 1 million reports in the NHS), there are limited methods by which to analyse this large number of events... - An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICUPeter Pronovost
School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
N Engl J Med 355:2725-32. 2006..50) at 16 to 18 months. CONCLUSIONS: An evidence-based intervention resulted in a large and sustained reduction (up to 66%) in rates of catheter-related bloodstream infection that was maintained throughout the 18-month study period... - Variation in public reporting of central line-associated bloodstream infections by stateMonica S Aswani
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Am J Med Qual 26:387-95. 2011..The wide variation in availability and content of information illustrates the need for standardized CLABSI monitoring and reporting mechanisms... - Controversy and quality improvement: lingering questions about ethics, oversight, and patient safety researchNancy Kass
Berman Institute of Biothics, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:349-53. 2008..Six ethical and regulatory issues are relevant to the Michigan ICU safety program and checklist and to evidence-based patient safety initiatives in general...