A leader in improving patient safety, Dr. Pronovost tells his story and urges a commitment to accountability.
Speaker:
Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group
Speech description:
Pronovost, who established the Quality and Safety Research Group (QSRG) to advance the science of safety, is dedicated to improving health care through methods that are scientifically rigorous, but feasible at the bedside. With his landmark study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, he was likely the first to implement a patient safety initiative successfully on a large scale. Using his system of checklist, culture change and measurement he virtually eliminated central line associated blood stream infection in Michigan and is taking his checklist nationally and internationally. Pronovost chose patient safety as a career path after watching his father die as a result of a medical error. He tells that story, as well as the story of his journey from a researcher to an international leader in patient safety in his new book “Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out.”
