Peter Pronovost

Peter J. Pronovost[2] (born February 22, 1965) is Chief Quality and Transformation Officer at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, the main affiliate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. At UH, Pronovost is responsible for improving value across the health system, helping people stay well, get well and manage their most acute medical conditions. He is the clinical lead for population health and the lead for high-reliability medicine, with direct responsibility for the UH employee accountable care organization. He is also responsible for telehealth and virtual health programs serving patient and provider communities.

Peter J. Pronovost
Born (1965-02-22) February 22, 1965[1]
Waterbury, Connecticut
CitizenshipUnited States United States
Alma materFairfield University
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Known forIntensive care checklist protocol
Awards2008 Time 100
2008 MacArthur Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsAnesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine
Patient safety
InstitutionsUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Fairfield University

He previously served as an intensive care physician and director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.[3] At Johns Hopkins University, he was Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine as well as Surgery, Professor of Healthcare Management at the Carey Business School, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.

He introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that during an 18-month period saved 1500 lives and $100 million in the State of Michigan.[4] According to surgeon Atul Gawande in The New Yorker, Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade."[5] In 2008 Time magazine named Pronovost among the 100 most influential people in the world.[6] That same year, Pronovost was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[1]

Pronovost's book Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out was released in February 2010.[7]

Early life and education

Pronovost grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut. His parents were an elementary school teacher and a math professor. He received his B.S. from Fairfield University, M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[5] In his Ph.D. thesis, he documented that in intensive-care units in Maryland, an intensive care specialist on the staff reduced death rates by a third.

Work
External video
video icon 2008 MacArthur Fellow: Peter Pronovost, MacArthur Foundation on YouTube, 2:14[8]
video icon Believing and Belonging - Peter Pronovost - TEDx Beacon Street Salon, TEDx on YouTube, 14:01[9]
video icon Pronovost checklist, CurrentMedicine.TV on YouTube, 11:40[10]
video icon The Patient Promise, Peter Pronovost, 7:31, Johns Hopkins Medicine

In 2003 he founded the Quality and Safety Research Group. Pronovost has published over 800 articles and chapters on patient safety and advises the World Health Organization on improving patient safety through WHO's World Alliance for Patient Safety.[11]

He started studying hospital-acquired infections in 2001, concluding that a simple 5 item check-list protocol would greatly reduce infections when inserting a central venous catheter;[12]

Doctors should:

  1. Wash their hands with soap.
  2. Clean the patient's skin with chlorhexidine antiseptic.
  3. Put sterile drapes over the entire patient.
  4. Wear a sterile mask, hat, gown and gloves.
  5. Put a sterile dressing over the catheter site.

In the Keystone Initiative, a 2003 study by a collection of Michigan hospitals and health organizations, the median rate of infections at a typical ICU dropped from 2.7 per 1,000 patients to zero after three months.[13] The Keystone Initiative published its results in the December, 2006 New England Journal of Medicine.[14] In the first three months of the project, the infection rate in Michigan's ICUs decreased by sixty-six per cent. In the Initiative's first eighteen months, they estimated that 1500 lives and $100 million were saved. These results were sustained for almost four years.[5]

Several reasons may explain why a simple checklist protocol is not more widely adapted:[15]

  • Many physicians do not like being monitored by nurses or otherwise being forced to follow a checklist;
  • A wish to avoid standardized tasks and bureaucracy; and
  • A focus by researchers on "more exciting" issues such as disease biology and new treatment therapies.

According to Pronovost,[5]

The fundamental problem with the quality of American medicine is that we’ve failed to view delivery of health care as a science. The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is ensuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia. It’s viewed as the art of medicine. That’s a mistake, a huge mistake. And from a taxpayer’s perspective it’s outrageous.

Recent work

In 2013, Pronovost co-founded Doctella, a startup that provides surgical checklists for patients to improve patient engagement, patient safety, and lead to better health outcomes.[16]

Also in 2013, Pronovost advocated for a system of alcohol and drug testing for doctors in a Journal of the American Medical Association article.[17][18]

He has participated in an online course, or MOOC, from Johns Hopkins provided via Coursera.[19]

In January 2018, he announced that he would be taking a position at United HealthCare. Shortly after taking the position he was promoted to Chief Medical Officer. Within weeks of taking this position, his departure from the position and the company was confirmed, although no reason was given.

In October 2018, he joined University Hospitals as Chief Quality and Clinical Transformation Officer, adding value across the entire health system.[20]

In 2020, Pronovost and colleagues at University Hospitals introduced an estimate that defects in value contribute to over $1 trillion in wasteful spending.[21] Pronovost, along with William Padula, David Dietz and Hanke Zheng further developed the framework for specialty care to illustrate that by investing in centers of excellence, health systems would otherwise spend pennies on the dollar over wasteful spending on value defects.[22]

Honors

In 2008, he was named in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, and was also named a MacArthur Fellow.[5] In 2011, Pronovost was recognized for his outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service with election to membership in the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.[23] On March 28, 2013, he was named a Gilman Scholar at Johns Hopkins University.[24]

Personal life

Pronovost has two children. His wife, Marlene Miller, is Chair of Pediatrics as well as Pediatrician-in-Chief at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.[25]

See also

References
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  2. Dreifus, Claudia (2010-03-09). "Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patient". The New York Times. p. D2. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
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  4. "Doctor Saved Michigan $100 Million". All Things Considered. National Public Radio. December 9, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  5. Gawande, Atul (December 2007). "The Checklist, If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?". New Yorker Magazine. p. 86. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  6. Kingsbury, Kathleen (May 2008). "The 2008 TIME 100". TIME Magazine. Time Warner. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  7. O'Reilly, Kevin B. (2010-03-08). "Infection rates drop as Michigan hospitals turn to checklists". American Medical News. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
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  9. "TEDxBeaconStreetSalon". TED (conference). March 17, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
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  11. "Peter Pronovost recognised by Time Magazine". World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on May 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  12. Brody, Jane E. (2008-01-22). "A Basic Hospital To-Do List Saves Lives". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
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  14. Pronovost P, Needham D, Berenholtz S, et al. (December 2006). "An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU". N. Engl. J. Med. 355 (26): 2725–32. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa061115. PMID 17192537.
  15. Goldsmith, Marshall (2008-01-15). "Preparing Your Professional Checklist". Business Week. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
  16. Doctella.com
  17. Cuong Pham, Julius; Pronovost, Peter J.; Skipper, Gregory E (May 22, 2013). "Identification of Physician Impairment". Journal of the American Medical Association. 309 (20): 2101–2. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.4635. PMID 23629590.
  18. Gantz, Sarah (May 7, 2013). "Johns Hopkins researchers say drug testing needed for doctors". Baltimore Business Journal. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  19. "The Science of Safety in Healthcare". Coursera. Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  20. "University Hospitals names Dr. Peter J. Pronovost chief clinical transformation officer". Crain's Cleveland. 29 October 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  21. Pronovost PJ, Urwin JW, Beck E, et al. Making a Dent in the Trillion-Dollar Problem: Toward Zero Defects. NEJM Catalyst, 2021;2(1). doi:10.1056/CAT.19.1064
  22. Dietz DW, Padula WV, Zheng H, Pronovost PJ. Costs of Defects in Surgical Care: A Call to Eliminate Defects in Value. NEJM Catalyst, 3 November 2021; doi: 10.1056/CAT.21.0305
  23. "Johns Hopkins Scientists Elected Into Institute of Medicine". Newswise, accessed October 17, 2011.
  24. "School of Medicine's Nathans, Pronovost named Gilman Scholars". HUB. Johns Hopkins University. March 28, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  25. "'Dr. Checklist' Peter Pronovost gets chance to transform University Hospitals". Cleveland.com. February 9, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
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