Checklists

Handwashing Query as Part of Checklist Drives Compliance

Internal Medicine News is reporting on an intervention described in a poster session by Dr. Jeremy Pamplin of Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, presented at the Annual Congress of the Society for Critical Care Medicine. Reporter Doug Brunk reports that ...More
February 4, 2011
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Safety Checklist Use Yields 10 Percent Drop in Hospital Deaths

A Johns Hopkins-led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units throughout Michigan appears to have also reduced deaths by 10 percent, a new study suggests. Although prior research showed a major reduction in ...More
January 31, 2011
Posted in News
Quality Improvement Intervention for ICUs Results in Increased Use of Evidence-Based Care Practices

A multi-faceted quality improvement intervention that included education, reminders and feedback through a collaborative telecommunication network improved the adoption of evidence-based care practices in intensive care units at community hospitals for practices such as ...More
January 20, 2011
Posted in News
Peter Pronovost to Join the Board of Directors of Cantel Medical Corp.

Cantel Medical Corp. today announced the election of Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, to serve as an independent member of Cantel's board of directors. "Dr. Pronovost is a world-renowned leader of patient safety and quality, serving as a practicing anesthesiologist and critical ...More
January 13, 2011
Posted in News
Checklist Continues to Stop Bloodstream Infections, This Time in Rhode Island

Using a widely heralded Johns Hopkins checklist and other patient-safety tools, intensive care units across the state of Michigan reduced the rate of potentially lethal bloodstream infections to near zero. Now, led by the same Johns Hopkins patient-safety expert who ...More
December 2, 2010
Posted in News
Striving for Zero CLABSIs

In a new campaign, "I Believe in Zero CLABSIs," the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has teamed with patient safety expert Peter Pronovost, MD, of Johns Hopkins, to mobilize infection preventionists to prove that prevention is ...More
July 19, 2010
Posted in News
Lessons From Efforts to Halt HAIs

Johns Hopkins researcher argues that arrogance, lack of transparency stand in way of saving lives. ...More
July 13, 2010
Posted in News
Atul Gawande, Peter Pronovost to Address APIC Attendees

Patient safety experts Atul Gawande and Peter Pronovost will address attendees of the 2010 APIC meeting. ...More
July 9, 2010
Posted in News
National Initiative to Reduce Infections in Cardiac Surgery is Announced

Underscoring the importance of the infection rate information released by the CDC, the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) Foundation today announced that the FOCUS Cardiac Surgery Patient Safety Initiative will develop, test and validate tools to eliminate ...More
June 1, 2010
Posted in News
Eliminate Infections? Check!

The complexity of medicine has been acknowledged as one of the contributing factors of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), in that a greater use of medical devices and interventions invariably results in potential complications and infections. It is the acceptance of ...More
March 21, 2010
Posted in Articles