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Provonost

It Is Time To Get Serious about the Science of Healthcare Delivery

On April 8, 2011, Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM, made this presentation at the meeting of the National Advisory Council.

Slides

  1. It is time to get serious about the science of healthcare delivery and put a man on the moon
  2. Photograph of the Earth
  3. Improved Health
  4. Photograph of a toddler
  5. Improving Care
  6. Median and Mean CRBSI Rate
  7. Impact of Statewide Quality Improvement Initiative on Hospital Mortality
  8. State Participation in the On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project
  9. The Bullfight
  10. Pennsylvania CLABSI mean/median rates
  11. Pennsylvania Histogram
  12. Massachusetts CLABSI mean/median rates
  13. Massachusetts Histogram
  14. Connecticut CLABSI mean/median rates
  15. Connecticut Histogram
  16. On the CUSP: STOP BSI
  17. Why did it Work
  18. Who Gets to 0
  19. How Might We Move Forward?
  20. Photograph of a toddler
  21. References
Page last reviewed October 2014
Page originally created September 2012
Internet Citation: Provonost. Content last reviewed October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://archive.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2011-04-nac/pronovost/index.html

 

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