Honored to have Sean Berenholtz as our interim director. As a physician, #ptsafety researcher and Armstrong Institute faculty member, he has led many projects to improve care at the state, national and international levels. ow.ly/NLpt30hYGkV

A Method to Measure Diagnostic Errors from Big Data Could be Key to Preventing Disability and Death from Misdiagnosis #PreventingMisdiagnoses
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Registration NOW Open: Implementing an Inter-professional Culture of Mobility Across the Hospital Workshop April 5-6, 2018 | Baltimore, MD #ICURehab #patientsafety #hospitalist hopkinsmedicine.org/physical_medic…

More than 420 hospitals from 48 states and Puerto Rico recently started a yearlong AHRQ program to reduce antibiotic-related harms and combat #antimicrobialresistance . We wish them the best and look forward to collaborating. ow.ly/fJXZ30hIuok NORC

Why is innovation so slow in healthcare? This is the best big-picture assessment I've seen so far, with great ideas to fix the problem. Kudos to Peter Pronovost and colleagues. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Mark Friedberg

'Current grant models do not attend to the needs of health systems to build capabilities to improve or to the processes of innovation' ja.ma/2DhvZ8i Honored to collaborate with Andrew Bindman and David Asch on this

Advocates of pay-for-performance have argued we need to give it more time. Is a decade enough?

Its time to declare P4P as we have done it a failure.

Our The BMJ with the terrific Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH and Dr Igna Bonfrer. x.com/joefigs2/statu…

“Most federal grants support isolated projects without..creating infrastructure to..implement..delivery system changes... [A] new federal funding strategy..is needed,” write Bindman Peter Pronovost & Asch Penn LDI.

My gloss: #benchtosystemside needs help. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Superb overview of new HRRP evidence & a potential path forward by Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Featuring work by U-M IHPI investigators Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc (He/Him) and Andrew Ryan x.com/jamaforum/stat…

My latest on the readmissions penalty program.

Two new studies out suggest:
1. Most of the drops in readmissions due to upcoding
2. May have led to higher mortality

It was a well-intended program. Its time for some changes. x.com/jamaforum/stat…

Safe Surgery toolkit we created with American College of Surgeons & Penn now available via AHRQ. Used by 200 hospitals to reduce #SSIs by 25-40% ow.ly/DwC830hm44C #ptsafety #patientsafety #CUSP

It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as Johns Hopkins Medicine Sr VP for #PatientSafety & Quality and Director of Armstrong Institute. In Feb, I begin a new challenge as Sr VP for Clinical Strategy at UnitedHealthcare - UnitedHealthcare. A great opportunity to help improve care for millions.

Peter Pronovost & colleagues on the the emerging evidence that demonstrates current readmission measures are not appropriate quality metrics journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/artic…

We’re REALLY going to miss our inspiring, dynamic leader, @peterpronovost. We wish him well! x.com/peterpronovost…

Learn about BREATHE, our program to slow the revolving door of hospital readmissions for #COPD patients, improve quality of life, and reduce caregiver stress. ow.ly/bQAS30h3pa6 The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Hina Chaudhry @SunaChung @JamiaMSaunders

Improve #patientsafety culture, empower front-line staff and tackle local hazards with CUSP. Next workshop: Jan. 23. ow.ly/y9Gn30h3jc3 #ptsafety

How a Group of Children's Hospitals Reduced #CLABSI Rates by 64 % - sterile tubing technique
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Jane Cassidy 💙 #infectioncontrol #CLABSI s @peterpronovost @mistcollab #sharesafety #caringsafely SPS @caphctweets @damian_roland @trey_coffey_to #pedsicu #paeds

Unnecessary blood cultures risk false positives, #antibiotic overuse and excess costs. Researchers from our #humanfactors center and infectious diseases collaborate to overcome barriers and spread an intervention to reduce inappropriate cultures.
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Does your hospital support #secondvictims of medical errors? @withyoudrwu and Cheryl Connors describe RISE, a Hopkins Hospital team providing peer support to employees after stressful patient-related events. ahcmedia.com/articles/14121…