4 results match your criteria: "Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety[Affiliation]"
Application of the Incident Command System to the Hospital Biocontainment Unit Setting.
Health Secur
June 2019
Brian T. Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, is Director, Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit, and Associate Professor, Medicine and Physiology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
High-consequence pathogens create a unique problem. To provide effective treatment for infected patients while providing safety for the community, a series of 10 high-level isolation units have been created across the country; they are known as Regional Ebola and Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTCs). The activation of a high-level isolation unit is a highly resource-intensive activity, with effects that ripple across the healthcare system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntensivist Presence at Code Events Is Associated with High Survival and Increased Documentation Rates.
Crit Care Clin
April 2018
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety, 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
To better support the highest function of the Johns Hopkins Hospital adult code and rapid response teams, a team leadership role was created for a faculty intensivist, with the intention to integrate improve processes of care delivery, documentation, and decision-making. This article examines process and outcomes associated with the introduction of this role. It demonstrates that an intensivist has the potential to improve patient care while offsetting costs through improved billing capture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMeasure accurately, Act rapidly, and Partner with patients: An intuitive and practical three-part framework to guide efforts to improve hypertension control.
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich)
July 2017
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA.
Hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease in the United States and worldwide. It also provides a useful model for team-based chronic disease management. This article describes the M.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping a Comprehensive Model of Intensive Care Unit Processes: Concept of Operations.
J Patient Saf
December 2018
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Objectives: This study aimed to use a systems engineering approach to improve performance and stakeholder engagement in the intensive care unit to reduce several different patient harms.
Methods: We developed a conceptual framework or concept of operations (ConOps) to analyze different types of harm that included 4 steps as follows: risk assessment, appropriate therapies, monitoring and feedback, as well as patient and family communications. This framework used a transdisciplinary approach to inventory the tasks and work flows required to eliminate 7 common types of harm experienced by patients in the intensive care unit.