Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
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Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals
How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

Author: Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, Eric Vohr

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/20/2019


Synopsis

First, do no harm-doctors, nurses and clinicians swear by this code of conduct. Yet in hospitals and doctors' offices across the country, errors are made every single day—avoidable, simple mistakes that often cost lives. Inspired by two medical mistakes that not only ended in unnecessary deaths but hit close to home, Dr. Peter Pronovost made it his personal mission to improve patient safety and make preventable deaths a thing of the past, one hospital at a time.

Dr. Pronovost began with simple improvements to a common procedure in the ER and ICU units at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Creating an easy five-step checklist based on the most up-to-date research for his fellow doctors and nurses to follow, he hoped that streamlining the procedure itself could slow the rate of infections patients often died from. But what Dr. Pronovost discovered was that doctors and nurses needed more than a checklist: the day-to-day environment needed to be more patient-driven and staff needed to see scientific results in order to know their efforts were a success. After those changes took effect, the units Dr. Pronovost worked with decreased their rate of infection by 70%.

Today, all fifty states are implementing Dr. Pronovost's programs, which have the potential to save more lives than any other medical innovation in the past twenty-five years.

About Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and serves as medical director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharil on March 30, 2010

This book starts with a very compelling story of how a child dies as a result of flawed communication systems within a hospital. Gripping - but I have to keep putting it down because I get so mad. The last half of the book was about changing systems and culture. Not as engaging as the personal storie......more

Goodreads review by Monica on February 04, 2022

Very cool how 1-2 seemingly simple changes revolutionized healthcare and patient safety and inspired continuous change. Many of the practices Pronovost championed for are widely used today. However, I found the book to be repetitive! I feel as though I could have read the first 2 chapters and the la......more

Goodreads review by Prachi on October 14, 2020

Preventable medical errors are more common than reported. Doctors are human beings, and thus fallible. They commit errors even if they are experts in their fields. Sometimes, these errors can be life-threatening. In this book, Dr. Peter Pronovost- a world-renowned patient safety champion- takes us t......more

Goodreads review by Leena on May 03, 2020

What a shame. Almost an autobiographical account of gratuitous self-admiration. You might be able to pick out the few interesting take home messages and ignore the self-love of Peter Pronovost, medical hero of the 21st century, but it was tiring and tedious.......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on July 01, 2010

This book is written by the doctor at Johns Hopkins University who established the checklist as a way to increase patient safety. I originally became aware of this book because my book club read Josie's Story and met with the author Sorrel King who mentioned the publication of this book. The death o......more