Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D
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Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2008, and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2009, Dr. Pronovost also directs the Quality and Safety Research Group and is medical director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.

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Checklists Alone Won't Change Health Care: The Full Story

Posted February 23, 2010 | 13:31:01 (EST)

Ten years ago at Johns Hopkins, my team began adapting aviation checklists to medicine. In 2006 we published a landmark paper in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing how we used checklists to nearly eliminate infections, not just in one hospital, but throughout the entire state of Michigan. We...

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