As leading experts on patient safety and quality, the Armstrong Institute and its faculty and staff have been featured in a wide range of professional journals and national and local media. Below is a selection of articles and television and radio programs in which we have appeared. Articles may mention the Quality and Safety Research Group and the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, two Johns Hopkins organizations that were folded into the Armstrong Institute in 2011.
Broadcast Media Highlights
- Dr. Albert Wu - Johns Hopkins talks RISE (WMAR Baltimore, April 27, 2020)
- Getting The Diagnosis Wrong (WYPR, August 6, 2019)
- Medical misdiagnosis: More common than you think(YPR, NPR News Station, October 31, 2017)
- Putting Care Back in the ICU (WYNC – Only Human, December 15, 2015)
- National Hospital Rating Systems Show Little Agreement – What’s A Consumer To Do? (WTOP Radio, March 11, 2015)
- How to Fix Hospital Horror Stories that Start in the ICU (Marketplace, Feb. 15, 2013)
- Rapid Response Teams: A Band-Aid Solution (World News with Diane Sawyer/ABC, Sept. 22, 2010)
Articles
- Armstrong Institute Marks 10 Years of Promoting Patient Safety (Dome, October 13, 2021)
- Maryland Commerce Supports Research Professorships at Eight Higher Education Institutions (Maryland Department of Commerce, October 19, 2021)
- 5 Questions to Ask Before Getting an Elective Surgery During the Pandemic (USA Today, July 13, 2020)
- Surgery or Medical Procedure? What to Know Before You Go (NY Times, June 30, 2020)
- The State of Health Care Quality Measurement in the Era of COVID-19: The Importance of Doing Better (JAMA Network, June 25, 2020)
- One in 10 People With Any of These 3 Serious Conditions Will Be Misdiagnosed, a New Study Says—Here's Why (Health.com, May 22, 2020)
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Low-Rated US Hospitals are Deadlier Due to Mistakes, Botched Surgery, Infections (USA Today, May 15, 2019)
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When Diagnosing a Patient's Ills, There's Strength in Numbers (Reuters, March 1, 2019)
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- Despite Guidelines, More Than 100 Ways PPE Doffing Process Can Fail (December 15, 2018)
- SIDM Welcomes New Board Leadership & Members at DEM2018 (SFGate, November 9, 2018)
- The Nation's Leading Scorecard on Hospital Safety Breaks Down Results Across Red and Blue States (PR Newswire, November 8, 2018)
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AHRQ recruits hospitals for surgical care improvement project (Becker's Healthcare, October 30, 2018)
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Johns Hopkins Medicine names Dr. Allen Kachalia SVP of Patient Safety and Quality (October 9, 2018)
- The Devastating Effects of Silence (PSQH, October 3, 2018)
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Burnout Tied to Twofold Higher Risk for Medical Errors (Medscape, July 9, 2018)
- 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety (Becker's Hospital Review, May 23, 2018)
- The Next Generation of Doctors May Be Learning Bad Habits at Teaching Hospitals with Many Safety Violations (Stat, April 20, 2018)
- Reducing the Risk of Surgical Site Infections in Africa (Infection Control Today, March 8, 2018)
- Johns Hopkins Researchers Use Big Data Analytics to Target Diagnostic Errors, Improve Quality (FierceHealthcare, January 23, 2018)
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- Top Patient Safety Expert, Innovator of Checklists, Departs Johns Hopkins (Baltimore Sun, December 14, 2017)
- Hidden Hospital Dangers: Experts Track Errors That Can Be Fatal or Make Patients Sicker (Post Star, November 18, 2017)
- Medically Injured Patients Desire to Know More About Prevention Efforts (Healio, October 11, 2017)
- Calculating the Lives That Could Be Saved (U.S. News & World Reports, June 21, 2017)
- Ventilator-Associated Adverse Events Largely Preventable, Study Finds (Becker’s Clinical Leadership & Infection Control, May 23, 2017)
- 9 Mistakes That Can Lead to a Misdiagnosis in the ER (Reader's digest, April, 2017)
- Improving Stroke Diagnosis Accuracy: An Interview With David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD (Neurology Advisor, May 2, 2017)
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- Putting Patient Safety and Quality Data Where You Might Not Expect It: Johns Hopkins Medicine Goes Performance-transparent with Dashboards (Becker’s Hospital Review, January 4, 2016)
- Meet the Cancer Patient in Room 52: His Name is Joseph, But Call Him Joe (The Washington Post, April 8, 2015)
- Intensive Care Gets Friendlier with Apps, Devices (The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2015)
- Can You Find the 'Best' Hospital For You? (CNN, March 4, 2015)
- Hospital Rating Systems Differ on Best and Worst (The New York Times, March 2, 2015)
- CDC Unveils Videos to Help with Ebola, Infectious Disease ID, Handling (Modern Healthcare, February 17, 2015)
- Hopkins Helps Make Training Videos on Ebola and Infectious Disease Care (The Baltimore Sun, February 17, 2015)
- Hopkins Picked to Create Ebola Training Tool (The Baltimore Sun, October 24, 2014)
- Ambitious Checklist App Comes as Hospitals Struggle with Basic Checklists (Modern Healthcare, June 21, 2014)
- Bringing in the Inside Expert: SCCM Award Honors Interactive Family-Centered Care (Critical Connections (v13: no2), April/May 2014)
- Captain “Sully” Sullenberger and Johns Hopkins Tackle Patient Safety (Forbes, October 2, 2013)
- Children with Cancer More Likely to Develop Central Line Infections at Home than at Hospital (Medical Daily, July 25, 2013)
- Should Doctors Get Random Drug Tests? (The Baltimore Sun, May 7, 2013)
- Diagnostic Errors are Leading Cause of Successful Malpractice Claims (The Washington Post, April 22, 2013)
- What Hospital Rankings Mean for You (Everyday Health, March 21, 2013)
- Safety First (Hopkins Medicine, Winter 2013)
- Q&A With Johns Hopkins' Dr. Peter Pronovost: How Clinical Communities Can Reduce Harm (Becker’s Clinical Quality & Infection Control, Feb. 28, 2012)
- Checklists that Patients and Doctors Follow Can Improve Hospital Care (The Washington Post, March 5, 2012)
- Johns Hopkins receives $10 Million to Open Patient Safety Institute (The Baltimore Sun, May 26, 2011)
- The Secret to Fighting Infections (The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2011)
- Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients (The New York Times, March 8, 2010)
- As Easy as 1-2-3? (The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 27, 2009)
- Safety Gurus: Penalize Doctors Who Don’t Follow Rules (The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 1, 2009)
- The Checklist (The New Yorker, Dec. 10, 2007)