Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Associate Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Senior Vice President, Patient Safety and Quality, Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

Anesthesiology

Peter Pronovost practices Anesthesiology. He attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has a rank of 3 in research and a 29 in primary care He received awards:"Elected Member", "Fellow (FCCM)" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Peter Pronovost is a published physician. He has 99 publications published. The most current publication "Re-examining high reliability: actively organising for safety." He accepts all Medicare patients.

Publications

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• Patient safety incident reporting: a qualitative study of thoughts and perceptions of experts 15 years after 'To Err is Human'.
• Patient safety and the problem of many hands.
• Preventability of Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism.
• The Views of Quality Improvement Professionals and Comparative Effectiveness Researchers on Ethics, IRBs, and Oversight.
• National hospital ratings systems share few common scores and may generate confusion instead of clarity.
• Does it matter who the anesthesiologist is for my heart surgery?
• Unconscious Race and Social Class Bias Among Acute Care Surgical Clinicians and Clinical Treatment Decisions.
• Hospital Volume and Failure to Rescue after Head and Neck Cancer Surgery.
• It is time to reinvent the wheels of medical training.
• Sustaining Reductions in Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Michigan Intensive Care Units: A 10-Year Analysis.
• An integrative framework for sensor-based measurement of teamwork in healthcare.
• Timing of Low Tidal Volume Ventilation and ICU Mortality in ARDS: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Conflict of interest, dr charles denham and the journal of patient safety.
• Use of provider-level dashboards and pay-for-performance in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis.
• Beyond the Hospital Gates: Elucidating the Interactive Association of Social Support, Depressive Symptoms, and Physical Function with 30-Day Readmissions.
• Diagnostic Errors in the Pediatric and Neonatal ICU: A Systematic Review.
• A systematic review of behavioural marker systems in healthcare: what do we know about their attributes, validity and application?
• A systematic review of teamwork in the intensive care unit: What do we know about teamwork, team tasks, and improvement strategies?
• Advancing the Use of Checklists for Evaluating Performance in Health Care.
• Red blood cell transfusion practices in two surgical intensive care units: a mixed methods assessment of barriers to evidence-based practice.
• From heroism to safe design: leveraging technology.
• Building a Highway to Quality Health Care.
• Locating Errors Through Networked Surveillance: A Multimethod Approach to Peer Assessment, Hazard Identification, and Prioritization of Patient Safety Efforts in Cardi...
• Evidence-based palliative care in the intensive care unit: a systematic review of interventions.
• Eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections: a national patient safety imperative.
• Enhancing physicians' use of clinical guidelines.
• Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• What to do with healthcare incident reporting systems.
• Identifying potential predictors of a safe attending physician workload: A survey of hospitalists.
• Protection of Patients From Physician Substance Misuse-Reply.
• Examination of Publications from Academic Anesthesiology Faculty in the United States.
• Usability and perceived usefulness of personal health records for preventive health care: A case study focusing on patients' and primary care providers' perspectives.
• Safety in Numbers: The Development of Leapfrog's Composite Patient Safety Score for U.S. Hospitals.
• Impact of a National Multimodal Intervention to Prevent Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection in the ICU: The Spanish Experience.
• Hospital-acquired conditions in head and neck cancer surgery.
• Do performance measures help healthcare?
• Identifying Meaningful Outcome Measures for the Intensive Care Unit.
• Comparison of Intensive Care Unit Medication Errors Reported to the United States' MedMarx and the United Kingdom's National Reporting and Learning System: A Cross-sec...
• A phased cluster-randomized trial of rural hospitals testing a quality collaborative to improve heart failure care: organizational context matters.
• Identification of physician impairment.
• Organising a manuscript reporting quality improvement or patient safety research.
• Surgical never events in the United States.
• Rapid response systems: Should we still question their implementation?
• 25-Year summary of US malpractice claims for diagnostic errors 1986-2010: an analysis from the National Practitioner Data Bank.
• National study on the distribution, causes, and consequences of voluntarily reported medication errors between the ICU and non-ICU settings.
• Maintaining and sustaining the On the CUSP: stop BSI model in Hawaii.
• Technologies in the wild (TiW): human factors implications for patient safety in the cardiovascular operating room.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after acute lung injury: a 2-year prospective longitudinal study.
• Variability in anticoagulation management of patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: an international survey*.
• In situ simulation in continuing education for the health care professions: a systematic review.
• Enhancing the quality of care in the intensive care unit: a systems engineering approach.
• Accuracy of marketing claims by providers of stereotactic radiation therapy.
• Anticoagulation monitoring during pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Identifying and categorising patient safety hazards in cardiovascular operating rooms using an interdisciplinary approach: a multisite study.
• Improving healthcare quality through organisational peer-to-peer assessment: lessons from the nuclear power industry.
• Making hospital care patient-centered: the three patient questions framework.
• Diagnostic errors in the intensive care unit: a systematic review of autopsy studies.
• Science-Based Training in Patient Safety and Quality.
• Nurse-Perceived Barriers to Effective Communication regarding Prognosis and Optimal End-of-Life Care for Surgical ICU Patients: A Qualitative Exploration.
• Bridging the leadership development gap: recommendations for medical education.
• Lung protective mechanical ventilation and two year survival in patients with acute lung injury: prospective cohort study.
• Five roles for quality leadership in radiology.
• Variations in surgical outcomes associated with hospital compliance with safety practices.
• Meeting standards of high-quality intensive care unit palliative care: Clinical performance and predictors.
• Establishing Safety and Quality as Core Values: A Hospital Road Map.
• Toward Improving Patient Safety Through Voluntary Peer-to-Peer Assessment.
• Depressive Symptoms and Impaired Physical Function after Acute Lung Injury: a 2-Year Longitudinal Study.
• Time to accelerate integration of human factors and ergonomics in patient safety.
• Other voices. What's next in the drive to eliminate preventable harm and cut costs?
• Health information technology and the collection of race, ethnicity, and language data to reduce disparities in quality of care.
• Eradicating Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Statewide: The Hawaii Experience.
• Association of unconscious race and social class bias with vignette-based clinical assessments by medical students.
• The business case for quality: economic analysis of the Michigan Keystone Patient Safety Program in ICUs.
• Variation in Public Reporting of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections by State.
• Time to take health delivery research seriously.
• Does intensive care unit severity of illness influence recall of baseline physical function?
• Are temporary staff associated with more severe emergency department medication errors?
• Surveillance bias in outcomes reporting.
• A public health approach to patient safety reporting systems is urgently needed.
• Patient-assisted incident reporting: including the patient in patient safety.
• Are sequential compression devices commonly associated with in-hospital falls? A myth-busters review using the patient safety net database.
• Explaining michigan: developing an ex post theory of a quality improvement program.
• What context features might be important determinants of the effectiveness of patient safety practice interventions?
• Variation in Local Institutional Review Board Evaluations of a Multicenter Patient Safety Study.
• A framework for classifying patient safety practices: results from an expert consensus process.
• Navigating adaptive challenges in quality improvement.
• Robotic Surgery Claims on United States Hospital Websites.
• Advancing the science of patient safety.
• The ability of intensive care units to maintain zero central line-associated bloodstream infections.
• Review article: high stakes and high risk: a focused qualitative review of hazards during cardiac surgery.
• Short-term mortality prediction for acute lung injury patients: external validation of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network prediction model.
• National study on the frequency, types, causes, and consequences of voluntarily reported emergency department medication errors.
• Focus on quality: an opportunity to execute health care reform.
• Board Quality Scorecards: Measuring Improvement.
• Preventing bloodstream infections: a measurable national success story in quality improvement.
• Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit.
• A road map for improving the performance of performance measures.
• Re-examining high reliability: actively organising for safety.

Schools

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• Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine

• Johns Hopkins University

• Johns Hopkins Hospital AnesthesiologyCritical Care Medicine

• Johns Hopkins Hospital Critical Care Medicine

• Fairfield University

• The Johns Hopkins School Of Hygiene and Public Health PhD

• Johns Hopkins Medicine Senior Vice President Patient Safety and Quality

• Johns Hopkins Medicine Director Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

Doctors Specialties

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• Anesthesiology
• Critical Care Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Choice Care PPO
• Medicare MCR

Awards

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• Elected Member
• Fellow (FCCM)
• Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Education

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• Johns Hopkins University
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1518904416
Last Name Of The Provider	PRONOVOST
First Name Of The Provider	PETER
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