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Peter J. Pronovost
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Peter J. Pronovost is a physician and patient safety expert known for introducing intensive care checklists to reduce infections and improve hospital care.
Biography
Peter J. Pronovost is an American physician and Chief Quality and Transformation Officer at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, the main affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He previously worked as an intensive care physician and directed the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
At Johns Hopkins University, Pronovost held professorships spanning anesthesiology, critical care medicine, surgery, healthcare management, and health policy and management. He also served as Medical Director of the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. His patient safety work includes introducing a checklist protocol for intensive care procedures. In 2008, he received a MacArthur Fellowship and was named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. His book, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, was released in February 2010.
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Books by Peter J. Pronovost
Safe patients, smart hospitals
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals describes Pronovost’s efforts to improve patient safety by changing how hospitals and doctors work day to day. It explains how a five-step checklist standardizing a common intensive care procedure can reduce infections and prevent unnecessary deaths.