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Principal faculty at Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Quality & Safety. Proud Baltimorean. Eternal optimist. Life motto: Be excellent to each other! 👍

Baltimore, MD
Joined February 2011
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Our team recently brought RISE to the #BigApple 🍎! Many thanks to this eager group from @MSKCancerCenter who are building a strong, effective, evidence-based peer support program for their staff that care for some of the most complex cancer patients in the world.
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"You can think of it like this: A researcher's idea is like a seed; the university is the ground where the seed is planted; and the NIH provides the water and sunlight to help it grow." - Sarah Szanton bit.ly/3DJVNNI
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@JMatthewAustin @allenkachalia & team describe @HopkinsMedicine efforts to develop an overall health system-level composite performance score of healthcare-associated infections to streamline the Board’s review of health system quality measures. 🔗journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Patient Engagement Program talk by @NicoleSchech at #HopkinsQualitySafetyResearch conference. #Communication matters.
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The first half of the Inaugural Johns Hopkins #Quality and #Safety Research Day started with a bang! Amazing line up of @JHM_Armstrong Researchers across our health system, networking across disciplines, & cross-pollination of ideas to improve Q&S #HopkinsQualitySafetyResearch
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“Addressing Social Needs to Achieve Kidney Health Equity” by @DrDeidraCrews at #HopkinsQualitySafetyResearch Day. #HealthEquity
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Pediatric Q&S team @hopkinskids @JHPedsResearch presenting and engaging in research discussions at #HopkinsQualitySafetyResearch! Incredible work by Veronica Natale, Ann Kane, & others on exploring employee safety event and opportunities for improvement
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Terrific work to produce this guide by co-PIs @JMatthewAustin & @elhamhatef with the help of #AHRQ! If you haven't checked it out, visit digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-t… @JohnsHopkinsSPH @HopkinsMedicine
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.@JMatthewAustin kicks off our new blog series on #ArtificialIntelligence, AI on AI, which will include thought experiments, interviews, project summaries & policy proposals to define the necessary features & considerations of an AI-equipped health system. armstronginstitute.blogs.hop…
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Matt Austin retweeted
Diagnostic error is the most underfunded public health crisis in America today. For nearly 400K deaths, Dx Error research gets <$75/death (some diseases get >$400,000/death). To achieve Diagnostic Excellence (DX), this must change. #DollarsForDX @DNewmanToker @HopkinsDXCenter
An @JHM_Armstrong @HopkinsDXCenter report estimates 795,000 Americans suffer serious harms from diagnostic error annually. Missed stroke is the #1 cause. Researchers point to a path forward for improved diagnosis across health care settings. dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-202…
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Join us for World Patient Safety Day #WPSD at our 1st collaborative @ISQua and @AmerAcadPeds #AAPCOQIPS webinar on Preventing Home Medication Errors in Children! Learn about implementation tools to decrease pediatric ambulatory med errors. Register now: bit.ly/3BgoHQD
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A new Leapfrog report, developed in collaboration with the nation’s leading experts on diagnostic excellence, identifies 29 evidence-based actions hospitals should implement to protect patients from harm or death due to #dxerrors. Check it out➡️ bit.ly/3PHuTXx
Leapfrog's Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis project is releasing a report this summer that recommends strategies hospitals can implement to prevent diagnostic errors. Stay tuned! bit.ly/3sxFQj5 @ImproveDX @HardeepSinghMD @MarkGraber @JMatthewAustin #AHRQChat #PSAW22
Q4. Are there any strategies that you recommend for reducing diagnostic errors? #AHRQChat #PSAW22
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This paper has gems on gems. 💎 @RRHDr et. al., talks about capturing historic and geographic factors, intersectionality and more. A must-read for anyone doing research on structural racism.💪🏽 doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021…
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J. Matt Austin, PhD., asst. professor at @HopkinsMedicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and Missy Danforth, VP of Health Care Ratings at @LeapfrogGroup will be speakers at our upcoming patient safety conference - we are looking forward to having them!
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My amazing teammates & I are hiring! "Work on developing novel hospital performance measures (covering...surgical outcomes and health equity), refining existing measures, and maintaining and expanding @usnews’s portfolio of hospital & healthcare ratings." linkedin.com/jobs/view/26213…
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Read why the US needs standardized measures to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic response in this Perspectives piece 👉 fal.cn/3d58l @JMatthewAustin @allenkachalia @JHM_Armstrong @HopkinsMedicine
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