Archived articles

Patient safety

Published Oct 24, 2014

Program will offer guidance on proper donning and safe removal of protective gear, patient monitoring

Published Nov 2013

Johns Hopkins receives $2.1M contract to develop, implement, support post-hospital program / Gazette

Published May 2013

Surgeon suggests using video to document procedures, use as a teaching tool, determine what's going right or wrong / Gazette

Published April 29, 2013

Experts from schools of nursing, medicine to lead Coursera course / School of Nursing

On stitches

Published Nov 13, 2012

Undergraduate team developed disposable suturing tool to guide placement of stitches, guard against accidental puncture

Published Nov 2012

Interdisciplinary team will design, implement, and deploy integrated set of interventions to reduce medical errors in intensive care units / Gazette

Published Sept 24, 2012

Medical errors are alarmingly frequent, Johns Hopkins surgeon writes, and little is being done about it / The Wall Street Journal

Published Fall 2012

Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary's new tell-all book argues that medicine is too often malpracticed. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Published Aug 29, 2012

Gift from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation part of effort to eliminate preventable harms in hospitals / Johns Hopkins Medicine