Improving Outcomes and Eliminating Harm

The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, located in Baltimore, Maryland, provides an infrastructure that oversees, coordinates and supports patient safety and quality efforts across Johns Hopkins' integrated health care system. Our mission is to eliminate patient harm, achieve best patient outcomes at the lowest possible cost and share that knowledge through our research and trainings.

  • Clinical Operations

    Providing highest quality and safest care at Johns Hopkins Medicine

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  • Research

    Advancing the science of safety and quality

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  • Education & Training

    Partnering with others to improve patient care

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  • Our Team

    Meet our community of safety and quality investigators

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  • About Us

    Learn about our history, the work we do and how to join the Armstrong team

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    Your gift can help improve patient safety and quality of care

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Other Featured News and Research

Getting the most out of organizational safety work: Accessible considerations for integration of artificial intelligence

Kate Bryant, Olivia Lounsbury, Ann Kane, M.D., and Julia Kim, M.D., discuss how integration of AI-based tools into healthcare organizations holds promise for automating incident reporting, facilitating system-focused investigations, and improving policy interpretation.
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Person-Centered Preventive Healthcare: Gathering Stakeholder Input on Evidence and Implementation

In this publication, Hanan Aboumatar, M.D., M.P.H.Julia Kim, M.D., M.P.H.Samantha Pitts, M.D., Ritu Sharma, B.Sc. and collaborators discuss how promoting the equitable delivery of clinical preventive services requires improving access to primary care but also expanding efforts beyond clinical settings to encompass public health and community infrastructure and engagement.
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Building a Culture of Quality and Safety in Health Care—The Importance of Respect for Patients

In this publication, Somnath Saha, M.D., M.P.H., and Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., M.P.H., examine how notes written in patients’ medical records can be a vehicle by which conscious or unconscious biases spread from one clinician to another, undermine quality of care for stigmatized patients and contribute to health care inequities.
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Failure to rescue—rapid response systems: A making healthcare safer rapid review

Bradford Winters, M.D., Ph.D.Michael Rosen, Ph.D., Ritu Sharma, B.Sc., Allen Zhang, B.S. and Eric Bass, M.D. review rapid response systems (RSSs), their effectiveness and factors that may be limiting their impact.
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Four Core Themes for Supporting Family Member Care Partners

In this interview, Steve Meth, J.D., M.S., discusses the urgent need to support family caregivers of acutely ill patients, and how prioritizing their unique needs while fostering collaboration among health care professionals can improve overall care.
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Dr. Rishi Irvin to Co-Host Public Health Tract of the Global Hepatitis Summit

Risha Irvin, M.D., M.P.H. will co-chair the Public Health Tract of the Global Hepatitis Summit in Los Angeles, California in March 2025.
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Our Patient Safety and Quality Projects

The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality leads regional, national and international projects that reduce preventable harm, improve patient and clinical outcomes, and decrease health care costs. We apply a scientific approach to improvement, employing robust measures and rigorous data-collection methods that can be broadly disseminated and sustained.


"Never Again”

Sharing his personal story of how a medical error severely impacted his life, C. Michael Armstrong, past chairman of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine, explains his commitment to health care improvement and the creation of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.

Learn about Our History

The Power of Giving!

Our goal is to eliminate preventable harm to patients and to achieve the best patient outcomes at the lowest cost possible, and then to share knowledge of how to achieve this goal with the world.The research and improvement programs of the Armstrong Institute directly benefit patients by reducing medical errors and complications, improving clinical outcomes, and delivering care that treats patients with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

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