Browsing by Author "Gawande, Atul"
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A Comparative Analysis of Incident Reporting Lag Times in Academic Medical Centres in Japan and the USA
Regenbogen, S. E.; Hirose, M.; Imanaka, Y.; Oh, E.-H.; Fukuda, H.; Gawande, Atul; Takemura, T.; Yoshihara, H. (2010)Background Delays in reporting of medical errors may signal deficiencies in the performance of hospital-based incident reporting. We sought to understand the characteristics of hospitals, providers and patient injuries ... -
A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population
Haynes, Alex B.; Weiser, Thomas G.; Berry, William R.; Lipsitz, Stuart R.; Breizat, Abdel-Hadi S.; Dellinger, E. Patchen; Herbosa, Teodoro; Joseph, Sudhir; Kibatala, Pascience L.; Lapitan, Marie Carmela M.; Merry, Alan F.; Moorthy, Krishna; Reznick, Richard K.; Taylor, Bryce; Gawande, Atul (2009) -
Access to essential technologies for safe childbirth: a survey of health workers in Africa and Asia
Spector, Jonathan Michael; Reisman, Jonathan; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger; Desai, Priya; Gawande, Atul Atmaram (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: The reliable availability of health technologies, defined as equipment, medicines, and consumable supplies, is essential to ensure successful childbirth practices proven to prevent avoidable maternal and newborn ... -
An Apgar Score for Surgery
Gawande, Atul; Kwaan, Mary R.; Regenbogen, Scott E.; Lipsitz, Stuart A.; Zinner, Michael J. (2007)BACKGROUND: Surgical teams have not had a routine, reliable measure of patient condition at the end of an operation. We aimed to develop an Apgar score for the field of surgery, an outcomes score that teams could calculate ... -
Analysis of Errors Reported By Surgeons at Three Teaching Hospitals
Gawande, Atul; Zinner, Michael J.; Studdert, David M.; Brennan, Troyen A. (2003) -
Analysis of Surgical Errors in Closed Malpractice Claims at 4 Liability Insurers
Rogers, Selwyn O.; Gawande, Atul; Kwaan, Mary; Puopolo, Ann Louise; Yoon, Catherine; Brennan, Troyen A.; Studdert, David M. (2006) -
Audit-identified avoidable factors in maternal and perinatal deaths in low resource settings: a systematic review
Merali, Hasan S; Lipsitz, Stuart; Hevelone, Nathanael; Gawande, Atul A; Lashoher, Angela; Agrawal, Priya; Spector, Jonathan (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Audits provide a rational framework for quality improvement by systematically assessing clinical practices against accepted standards with the aim to develop recommendations and interventions that target ... -
Clinical, Sonographic, and Pathological Characteristics of Ras-positive Versus Braf-positive Thyroid Carcinoma
Kakarmath, Sujay; Heller, Howard; Alexander, Caroline; Cibas, Edmund; Krane, Jeffrey; Barletta, Justine; Lindeman, Neal; Frates, Mary; Benson, Carol; Gawande, Atul; Cho, Nancy; Nehs, Matthew; Moore, Francis; Marqusee, Ellen; Kim, Mathew; P. Reed Larsen; Kwong, Norra; Angell, Trevor; Alexander, Erik (2016)Context: Mutations in the BRAF and RAS oncogenes are responsible for most well-differentiated thyroid cancer. Yet, our clinical understanding of how BRAF-positive and RAS-positive thyroid cancers differ is incomplete.Objective: ... -
Contribution of Preventable Acute Care Spending to Total Spending for High-cost Medicare Patients
Joynt, Karen E.; Gawande, Atul; Orav, E. John; Jha, Ashish K. (2013)Importance A small proportion of patients account for the majority of US health care spending, and understanding patterns of spending among this cohort is critical to reducing health care costs. The degree to which preventable ... -
Demand-side interventions for maternal care: evidence of more use, not better outcomes
Hurst, Taylor E.; Semrau, Katherine; Patna, Manasa; Gawande, Atul; Hirschhorn, Lisa R. (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality is essential to improving population health. Demand-side interventions are designed to increase uptake of critical maternal health services, but associated change in ... -
Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention
Bernacki, Rachelle; Hutchings, Mathilde; Vick, Judith; Smith, Grant; Paladino, Joanna; Lipsitz, Stuart; Gawande, Atul A; Block, Susan D (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Introduction: Ensuring that patients receive care that is consistent with their goals and values is a critical component of high-quality care. This article describes the protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial ... -
Disclosure of Medical Injury to Patients: An Improbable Risk Management Strategy
Studdert, D. M.; Mello, M. M.; Gawande, Atul; Brennan, T. A.; Wang, Y. C. (2007)Pressure mounts on physicians and hospitals to disclose adverse outcomes of care to patients. Although such transparency diverges from traditional risk management strategy, recent commentary has suggested that disclosure ... -
Do Differences in Hospital and Surgeon Quality Explain Racial Disparities in Lower-extremity Vascular Amputations?
Regenbogen, Scott E.; Gawande, Atul; Lipsitz, Stuart R.; Greenberg, Caprice C.; Jha, Ashish K. (2009)Objective: To understand whether racial disparities in surgery for lower-extremity arterial disease are minimized by high-quality providers, or instead, differential treatment of otherwise similar patients pervades all ... -
Effect of a 19-item Surgical Safety Checklist During Urgent Operations in a Global Patient Population
Weiser, Thomas G.; Haynes, Alex B.; Dziekan, Gerald; Berry, William R.; Lipsitz, Stuart R.; Gawande, Atul (2010)Objective: To assess whether implementation of a 19-item World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist in urgent surgical cases would improve compliance with basic standards of care and reduce rates of deaths ... -
Effective Surgical Safety Checklist Implementation
Conley, Dante M.; Singer, Sara J.; Edmondson, Lizabeth; Berry, William R.; Gawande, Atul (2011) -
Effectiveness of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program in reducing severe maternal, fetal, and newborn harm in Uttar Pradesh, India: study protocol for a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial
Semrau, Katherine E. A.; Hirschhorn, Lisa R.; Kodkany, Bhala; Spector, Jonathan M.; Tuller, Danielle E.; King, Gary; Lipsitz, Stuart; Sharma, Narender; Singh, Vinay Pratap; Kumar, Bharath; Dhingra-Kumar, Neelam; Firestone, Rebecca; Kumar, Vishwajeet; Gawande, Atul A. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Effective, scalable strategies to improve maternal, fetal, and newborn health and reduce preventable morbidity and mortality are urgently needed in low- and middle-income countries. Building on the successes ... -
Hospital Board and Management Practices are Strongly Related to Hospital Performance on Clinical Quality Metrics
Tsai, T. C.; Jha, A. K.; Gawande, Atul; Huckman, Robert; Bloom, N.; Sadun, Raffaella (2015)National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital leadership and quality, although crucial to driving ... -
Improving Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health: Prospective Pilot Study of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program
Kodkany, Bhala; Lashoher, Angela; Dziekan, Gerald; Bahl, Rajiv; Merialdi, Mario; Mathai, Matthews; Lemer, Claire; Spector, Jonathan Michael; Agrawal, Priya; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger; Gawande, Atul Atmaram (Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Most maternal deaths, intrapartum-related stillbirths, and newborn deaths in low income countries are preventable but simple, effective methods for improving safety in institutional births have not been devised. ... -
Learning before leaping: integration of an adaptive study design process prior to initiation of BetterBirth, a large-scale randomized controlled trial in Uttar Pradesh, India
Hirschhorn, Lisa Ruth; Semrau, Katherine; Kodkany, Bhala; Churchill, Robyn; Kapoor, Atul; Spector, Jonathan; Ringer, Steve; Firestone, Rebecca; Kumar, Vishwajeet; Gawande, Atul (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Pragmatic and adaptive trial designs are increasingly used in quality improvement (QI) interventions to provide the strongest evidence for effective implementation and impact prior to broader scale-up. We ... -
Legal Disputes over Duties to Disclose Treatment Risks to Patients: A Review of Negligence Claims and Complaints in Australia
Bismark, Marie M.; Gogos, Andrew J.; Clark, Richard B.; Gruen, Russell L.; Gawande, Atul Atmaram; Studdert, David Michael (Public Library of Science, 2012)David Studdert and colleagues identified disputes over informed consent among malpractice claims and serious health care complaints in Australia and provide an analysis of disagreements between patients and doctors over ...