Peter J Pronovost

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Epidemiology and impact of aspiration pneumonia in patients undergoing surgery in Maryland, 1999-2000
    Jeffrey 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
  2. ncbi Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 202:746-52. 2006
  3. ncbi Impact of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) on safety culture in a surgical inpatient unit
    Joanne Timmel
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:252-60. 2010
  4. ncbi A system factors analysis of airway events from the Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System (ICUSRS)
    Dale M Needham
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 32:2227-33. 2004
  5. ncbi Critical pathway effectiveness: assessing the impact of patient, hospital care, and pathway characteristics using qualitative comparative analysis
    Sydney M Dy
    Maryland Community Hospice, Room 609, 624N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Health Serv Res 40:499-516. 2005
  6. ncbi A novel process for introducing a new intraoperative program: a multidisciplinary paradigm for mitigating hazards and improving patient safety
    Jose M Rodriguez-Paz
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    Anesth Analg 108:202-10. 2009
  7. ncbi Reduction of in-hospital mortality among California hospitals meeting Leapfrog evidence-based standards for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
    Benjamin S Brooke
    Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Vasc Surg 47:1155-6; discussion 1163-4. 2008
  8. ncbi Surveillance bias and deep vein thrombosis in the national trauma data bank: the more we look, the more we find
    Charles A Pierce
    Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    J Trauma 64:932-6; discussion 936-7. 2008
  9. ncbi Adverse events during medical and surgical hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia
    Gail L Daumit
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:267-72. 2006
  10. ncbi Qualitative review of intensive care unit quality indicators
    Sean 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

Detail Information

Publications88

  1. ncbi Epidemiology and impact of aspiration pneumonia in patients undergoing surgery in Maryland, 1999-2000
    Jeffrey 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...
  2. ncbi Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 202:746-52. 2006
    ..Although efforts to improve patient safety through improving teamwork are growing, there is no validated tool to scientifically measure teamwork in the surgical setting...
  3. ncbi Impact of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) on safety culture in a surgical inpatient unit
    Joanne Timmel
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:252-60. 2010
    ..Both are part of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), which improved safety in intensive care units but had not been evaluated in other inpatient settings...
  4. ncbi A system factors analysis of airway events from the Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System (ICUSRS)
    Dale M Needham
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 32:2227-33. 2004
    ..Prevention efforts should focus on critically ill infants and patients with complex medical conditions. Managers should ensure appropriate ICU staffing to limit the impact of airway events when they occur...
  5. ncbi Critical pathway effectiveness: assessing the impact of patient, hospital care, and pathway characteristics using qualitative comparative analysis
    Sydney M Dy
    Maryland Community Hospice, Room 609, 624N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Health Serv Res 40:499-516. 2005
    ..Because pathway utilization was not a strong predictor of pathway effectiveness, the mechanism by which critical pathways may reduce length of stay is unclear...
  6. ncbi A novel process for introducing a new intraoperative program: a multidisciplinary paradigm for mitigating hazards and improving patient safety
    Jose M Rodriguez-Paz
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    Anesth Analg 108:202-10. 2009
    ..We describe a multidisciplinary process that was implemented at our hospital to identify and mitigate hazards before the introduction of a new technique: high-dose-rate intraoperative radiation therapy, (HDR-IORT)...
  7. ncbi Reduction of in-hospital mortality among California hospitals meeting Leapfrog evidence-based standards for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
    Benjamin S Brooke
    Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Vasc Surg 47:1155-6; discussion 1163-4. 2008
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine whether meeting these benchmarks correlated with improved patient outcomes over time...
  8. ncbi Surveillance bias and deep vein thrombosis in the national trauma data bank: the more we look, the more we find
    Charles A Pierce
    Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    J Trauma 64:932-6; discussion 936-7. 2008
    ..We hypothesize that trauma centers with higher rates of duplex ultrasound detect more DVTs and subsequently report higher DVT rates to the National Trauma Data Bank...
  9. ncbi Adverse events during medical and surgical hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia
    Gail L Daumit
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:267-72. 2006
    ..These adverse events were associated with poor clinical and economic outcomes during the hospital admission. Efforts to reduce these adverse events should become a research priority...
  10. ncbi Qualitative review of intensive care unit quality indicators
    Sean 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...
  11. ncbi Hazards of benchmarking complications with the National Trauma Data Bank: numerators in search of denominators
    Shahrzad Kardooni
    Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    J Trauma 64:273-7; discussion 277-9. 2008
    ..We examined the suitability of the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) as a reference for benchmarking trauma center complication rates...
  12. ncbi Prevalence of blood-borne pathogens in an urban, university-based general surgical practice
    Eric S Weiss
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    Ann Surg 241:803-7; discussion 807-9. 2005
    ..Given the high incidence of these infections, strategies such as sharpless surgical techniques should be evaluated and implemented to protect surgeons from blood-borne pathogens...
  13. ncbi A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit
    Dale M Needham
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 33:1701-7. 2005
    ..Focusing on these contributing factors and clinician knowledge and skills is important for reducing and preventing these hazardous events...
  14. ncbi Should older patients be selectively referred to high-volume centers for abdominal aortic surgery?
    Justin B Dimick
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, USA
    Vascular 12:51-6. 2004
    ..Because of this differential effect, targeting elderly patients for regionalization would achieve most potentially avoidable deaths for this common high-risk surgical procedure...
  15. ncbi Creating high reliability in health care organizations
    Peter 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
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  16. ncbi Eliminating catheter-related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit
    Sean 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...
  17. ncbi Using evidence, rigorous measurement, and collaboration to eliminate central catheter-associated bloodstream infections
    Melinda 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...
  18. ncbi Improving surgical outcomes through adoption of evidence-based process measures: intervention specific or associated with overall hospital quality?
    Benjamin S Brooke
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Surgery 147:481-90. 2010
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  19. ncbi Are critical pathways effective for reducing postoperative length of stay?
    Sydney Morss Dy
    Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Med Care 41:637-48. 2003
    ..Many hospitals use critical pathways to attempt to reduce postoperative length of stay (PLOS) for diverse conditions and procedures...
  20. ncbi Postoperative complications: does intensive care unit staff nursing make a difference?
    Deborah Dang
    Department of Nursing, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287 1007, USA
    Heart Lung 31:219-28. 2002
    ..The purpose of this study was to examine the association between intensive care unit nurse (ICU) staffing and the likelihood of complications for patients undergoing abdominal aortic surgery...
  21. ncbi Number needed to treat and cost of recombinant human erythropoietin to avoid one transfusion-related adverse event in critically ill patients
    Kenneth M Shermock
    Center for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy (KMS, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Surgical Intensive Care (EH, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 33:497-503. 2005
    ..CONCLUSIONS: From the perspective of avoidance of adverse events, erythropoietin does not appear to be an efficient use of limited resources for routine use in critically ill patients...
  22. ncbi Study protocol: The Improving Care of Acute Lung Injury Patients (ICAP) study
    Dale M Needham
    Johns Hopkins University, 5th Floor, 1830 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Crit Care 10:R9. 2006
    ....
  23. ncbi Achieving the National Quality Forum's "Never Events": prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient operations
    Robert K Michaels
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Ann Surg 245:526-32. 2007
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  24. ncbi Impact of preoperative briefings on operating room delays: a preliminary report
    Shantanu Nundy
    Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1909 Thames St, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
    Arch Surg 143:1068-72. 2008
    ..Preoperative briefings have the potential to reduce operating room (OR) delays through improved teamwork and communication...
  25. ncbi Sensitivity of routine intensive care unit surveillance for detecting myocardial ischemia
    Elizabeth A Martinez
    The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, USA
    Crit Care Med 31:2302-8. 2003
    ..Because detecting electrocardiogram evidence suggestive of prolonged postoperative myocardial ischemia is important, physicians should consider alternative strategies to detect myocardial ischemia...
  26. ncbi Implementing standardized operating room briefings and debriefings at a large regional medical center
    Sean 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...
  27. ncbi Assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study
    Lori A Paine
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:547-54. 2010
    ..To describe the authors' hospital-wide efforts to improve safety climate at a large academic medical centre...
  28. ncbi Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel
    J Bryan Sexton
    The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Anesthesiology 105:877-84. 2006
    ..This tool and initial benchmarks allow others to compare their teamwork climate to national means, in an effort to focus more on what excellent surgical teams do well...
  29. ncbi Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery
    Martin A Makary
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 204:236-43. 2007
    ..This study evaluated the impact of operating room briefings on coordination of care and risk for wrong-site surgery...
  30. ncbi Association between venous thromboembolism and perioperative allogeneic transfusion
    Kent 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...
  31. ncbi Reduction of catheter-associated bloodstream infections in pediatric patients: experimentation and reality
    Christopher McKee
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Pediatr Crit Care Med 9:40-6. 2008
    ..Few data exist on successes at reducing pediatric catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSI). The objective was to eradicate CA-BSI with a multifaceted pediatric-relevant intervention proven effective in adult patients...
  32. ncbi Republished paper: assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study
    Lori A Paine
    The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
    Postgrad Med J 87:428-35. 2011
    ..176. Climate scores improved significantly from 2006 to 2008 in every domain except stress recognition. CONCLUSIONS Hospital-wide interventions were associated with improvements in safety climate at a large academic medical centre...
  33. ncbi Assessing controlled substance prescribing errors in a pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription practice in the transition from the hospital to home
    Benjamin H Lee
    Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    J Pain 10:160-6. 2009
    ..With a low therapeutic profile, the hospital may consider a review/verification process to reduce the risk of patient harm...
  34. ncbi 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
  35. ncbi Hospital volume and mortality for mechanical ventilation of medical and surgical patients: a population-based analysis using administrative data
    Dale M Needham
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 34:2349-54. 2006
    ..For medical patients, higher mortality may occur in a subgroup of low-volume hospitals that do not routinely transfer their patients to larger-volume facilities. This finding needs further investigation in a larger-sized study...
  36. ncbi Creating the web-based intensive care unit safety reporting system
    Christine G Holzmueller
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Meyer 291, Baltimore, MD 21287-7294, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:130-9. 2005
    ..Qualitative and quantitative data are reported back to the ICU site study teams and frontline staff through monthly reports, case discussions, and a quarterly newsletter...
  37. ncbi Physician staffing patterns and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients: a systematic review
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    JAMA 288:2151-62. 2002
    ..No study found increased LOS with high-intensity staffing after case-mix adjustment. CONCLUSIONS: High-intensity vs low-intensity ICU physician staffing is associated with reduced hospital and ICU mortality and hospital and ICU LOS...
  38. ncbi Needlestick injuries among surgeons in training
    Martin A Makary
    Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Surgery, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore 21231, USA
    N Engl J Med 356:2693-9. 2007
    ..Surgeons in training are at high risk for needlestick injuries. The reporting of such injuries is a critical step in initiating early prophylaxis or treatment...
  39. ncbi Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational study
    Peter 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...
  40. ncbi National study on the quality of emergency department care in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction and pneumonia
    Julius Cuong Pham
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 14:856-63. 2007
    ..To measure the quality of emergency department (ED) care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia (PNA) and to estimate the number of preventable deaths in these patients...
  41. ncbi Monitoring patient safety
    Sean 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...
  42. ncbi A framework for health care organizations to develop and evaluate a safety scorecard
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    JAMA 298:2063-5. 2007
  43. ncbi A practical tool to identify and eliminate barriers to compliance with evidence-based guidelines
    Ayse 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...
  44. ncbi Analysis of 23 million US hospitalizations: uninsured children have higher all-cause in-hospital mortality
    Fizan Abdullah
    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Public Health (Oxf) 32:236-44. 2010
    ..We analyzed data from more than 23 million US children to evaluate the effect of insurance status on the outcome of US pediatric hospitalization...
  45. ncbi The occurrence of potential patient safety events among trauma patients: are they random?
    David C Chang
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    Ann Surg 247:327-34. 2008
    ..The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality are validated measures of quality of care. The pattern of PSIs among adult trauma patients is unknown...
  46. ncbi Implementing a team-based daily goals sheet in a non-ICU setting
    Christine G Holzmueller
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:384-8, 341. 2009
    ..This tool clarifies patient-centered goals, provides an accurate information source for each patient, and helps nurses communicate more effectively with one another and the surgical team...
  47. ncbi Use of beta-blockers during aortic aneurysm repair: bridging the gap between evidence and effective practice
    Benjamin S Brooke
    Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 28:1199-209. 2009
    ..The efficacy and effectiveness of specific EBM practices must be continually reexamined, to ensure that objectives are being met...
  48. ncbi Measurement of quality and assurance of safety in the critically ill
    Peter 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...
  49. ncbi Reducing failed extubations in the intensive care unit
    Peter J Pronovost
    Departments of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe Street, Meyer 295, Baltimore, MD 21287 7294, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:595-604. 2002
    ..A study was designed in 1998 to identify risk factors for failed extubation and use a quality improvement model to reduce failed extubation rates in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU) in an academic hospital...
  50. ncbi Developing and pilot testing quality indicators in the intensive care unit
    Peter 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...
  51. ncbi The organization of intensive care unit physician services
    Peter J Pronovost
    School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 35:2256-61. 2007
    ..do not meet the Leapfrog Physician Staffing standard, and to describe ICU directors' perceptions of the quality of care in their unit...
  52. ncbi Human immunodeficiency virus infection and hospital mortality in acute lung injury patients
    Pedro A Mendez-Tellez
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 38:1530-5. 2010
    ..To evaluate the impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on hospital mortality in patients with acute lung injury and to evaluate predictors of mortality among acute lung injury patients with human immunodeficiency virus...
  53. ncbi Duplex ultrasound screening for deep vein thrombosis in asymptomatic trauma patients: a survey of individual trauma surgeon opinions and current trauma center practices
    Elliott R Haut
    Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Trauma 70:27-33; discussion 33-4. 2011
    ..We hypothesized that trauma surgeons have varying opinions regarding duplex ultrasound screening for DVT in asymptomatic trauma patients, which result in varying practice patterns...
  54. ncbi A systematic review of the Charlson comorbidity index using Canadian administrative databases: a perspective on risk adjustment in critical care research
    Dale M Needham
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    J Crit Care 20:12-9. 2005
    ..Future research should focus on updating the Charlson index for recent changes in the prognosis of comorbid diseases and introduction of International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision coding of discharge abstracts...
  55. ncbi Systematic review and analysis of postdischarge symptoms after outpatient surgery
    Christopher L Wu
    Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Anesthesiology 96:994-1003. 2002
  56. ncbi Establishing a global learning community for incident-reporting systems
    Julius 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...
  57. ncbi Cardiac troponin I predicts short-term mortality in vascular surgery patients
    Lauren J Kim
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287-7294, USA
    Circulation 106:2366-71. 2002
    ..Further research is needed to determine whether intervention in these patients can improve outcome...
  58. ncbi Using an interdisciplinary approach to identify factors that affect clinicians' compliance with evidence-based guidelines
    Ayse P Gurses
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 38:S282-91. 2010
    ....
  59. ncbi View the world through a different lens: shadowing another provider
    David A Thompson
    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 34:614-8, 561. 2008
    ..The shadowing tool promotes understanding of other professions' roles in patient care...
  60. ncbi Neuromuscular dysfunction acquired in critical illness: a systematic review
    Robert D Stevens
    Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Meyer 8 140, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    Intensive Care Med 33:1876-91. 2007
    ..To determine the prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes of critical illness neuromuscular abnormalities (CINMA)...
  61. ncbi Systematic review identifies number of strategies important for retaining study participants
    Karen A Robinson
    Division of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    J Clin Epidemiol 60:757-65. 2007
    ..We conducted a systematic review of studies with a primary focus on strategies to retain participants in health care research...
  62. ncbi ReCASTing the RCA: an improved model for performing root cause analyses
    Julius 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...
  63. ncbi Monitoring and reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections: a national survey of state hospital associations
    David 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...
  64. ncbi Targeting errors in the ICU: use of a national database
    Ruth Kleinpell
    Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am 18:509-14. 2006
    ..Voluntary external reporting systems such as the ICUSRS can be used to target errors and produce evidence-based best practice measures to improve patient safety in the ICU...
  65. ncbi Postoperative complication rates after hepatic resection in Maryland hospitals
    Justin B Dimick
    Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    Arch Surg 138:41-6. 2003
    ..The empirical difference between outcomes at high- and low-volume hospitals seems to be due to a variation in postoperative complications...
  66. ncbi Complications and costs after high-risk surgery: where should we focus quality improvement initiatives?
    Justin B Dimick
    Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 196:671-8. 2003
    ..Data on the relative clinical and economic impact of postoperative complications are needed in order to direct quality improvement efforts...
  67. ncbi Paying the piper: investing in infrastructure for patient safety
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:342-8. 2008
    ..Yet, predicating safety efforts on the mistaken belief in a short-term return on investments will stall patient safety efforts...
  68. ncbi The volume-outcome effect for abdominal aortic surgery: differences in case-mix or complications?
    Justin B Dimick
    Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, Taubman Center 2210, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0329, USA
    Arch Surg 137:828-32. 2002
    ..Variation in postoperative complications after abdominal aortic surgery contributes to differences in mortality between high- and low-volume hospitals...
  69. ncbi Improving patient safety in intensive care units in Michigan
    Peter J Pronovost
    Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
    J Crit Care 23:207-21. 2008
    ....
  70. ncbi Tracking progress in patient safety: an elusive target
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
    JAMA 296:696-9. 2006
  71. ncbi Predictors of transfusion for spinal surgery in Maryland, 1997 to 2000
    Sean 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...
  72. ncbi Quality of life in adult survivors of critical illness: a systematic review of the literature
    David W Dowdy
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Intensive Care Med 31:611-20. 2005
    ..This systematic review provides a general understanding of QOL following critical illness and can serve as a standard of comparison for QOL studies in specific ICU subpopulations...
  73. ncbi Studying outcomes of intensive care unit survivors: measuring exposures and outcomes
    Dale M Needham
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Intensive Care Med 31:1153-60. 2005
    ..There is little systematic guidance for measuring these outcomes and exposures within the ICU setting. As a result measurement methods are often variable and non-comparable across studies...
  74. ncbi The 100,000 Lives Campaign: A scientific and policy review
    Robert M Wachter
    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:621-7. 2006
    ..quot; The actual mortality data were supplied without audit by the more than 3,000 participating hospitals, and 14% of the hospitals submitted no data at all...
  75. ncbi Partnership with patients: a prescription for ICU safety
    Albert W Wu
    Chest 130:1291-3. 2006
  76. ncbi Team care: beyond open and closed intensive care units
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
    Curr Opin Crit Care 12:604-8. 2006
    ..The purpose of this paper is to accelerate patient's exposure to the benefits of intensivists, and introduce team care in the intensive care unit...
  77. ncbi Rapid response teams--walk, don't run
    Bradford D Winters
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    JAMA 296:1645-7. 2006
  78. ncbi A descriptive study of morbidity and mortality conferences and their conformity to medical incident analysis models: results of the morbidity and mortality conference improvement study, phase 1
    Hanan J Aboumatar
    Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287 0765, USA
    Am J Med Qual 22:232-8. 2007
    ..Models for best practices in conducting morbidity and mortality conferences are needed...
  79. ncbi Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study
    David J Sinopoli
    UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
    J Crit Care 22:177-83. 2007
    ..The aim of this study is to determine if patient safety incidents and the system-related factors contributing to them systematically differ for medical versus surgical patients in intensive care units...
  80. ncbi Developing quality measures for sepsis care in the ICU
    Sean 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...
  81. ncbi Pediatric patient safety in the ambulatory setting
    Marlene R Miller
    Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Ambul Pediatr 4:47-54. 2004
  82. ncbi Senior executive adopt-a-work unit: a model for safety improvement
    Peter J Pronovost
    Johns Hopkins University, Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:59-68. 2004
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  83. ncbi How can clinicians measure safety and quality in acute care?
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Lancet 363:1061-7. 2004
    ..One method that may help to provide caregivers frequent feedback is time series data--ie, results are graphically correlated with time. Broad use of these tools might lead to the necessary improvements in quality of care...
  84. ncbi Mechanical ventilation in Ontario, 1992-2000: incidence, survival, and hospital bed utilization of noncardiac surgery adult patients
    Dale M Needham
    Department of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Crit Care Med 32:1504-9. 2004
    ..The increase, over time, in risk-adjusted mortality rate of mechanically ventilated patients is concerning and requires further investigation...
  85. ncbi Partnering for quality
    Peter J Pronovost
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    J Crit Care 19:121-9. 2004
    ..The take home message is, when we come to work every day, we must be committed to quality and safety, and lead our teams to do the same...
  86. ncbi Improving the quality of measurement and evaluation in quality improvement efforts
    Peter 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
  87. ncbi Can increased incidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) be used as a marker of quality of care in the absence of standardized screening? The potential effect of surveillance bias on reported DVT rates after trauma
    Elliott R Haut
    Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    J Trauma 63:1132-5; discussion 1135-7. 2007
    ..We hypothesized that as the number of screening duplex examinations in trauma patients increases, the rate of DVT identification will also increase...
  88. ncbi Measuring clinical information technology in the ICU setting: application in a quality improvement collaborative
    Ruben Amarasingham
    Medicine Services, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas, TX 75235, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:288-94. 2007
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