Peter Pronovost shares thoughts on patient safety in New York Times Q & A
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, March 10, 2010
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Peter Pronovost, the well-known physician and patient safety champion who is the medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and also one of the minds behind the Michigan Keystone project to reduce central line infections, recently sat down with the New York Times. Pronovost, who co-published a book titled Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out last month, discussed why he decided to become a doctor, and some of the challenges he's faced during his career.
To find the Q & A, click here.
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