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Atul A. Gawande
Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Publications - 284
Citations - 38699
Atul A. Gawande is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Checklist. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 281 publications receiving 33928 citations. Previous affiliations of Atul A. Gawande include University of Maryland, Baltimore & Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
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Recommendations for Best Communication Practices to Facilitate Goal-concordant Care for Seriously Ill Older Patients With Emergency Surgical Conditions.
Zara Cooper,Luca A. Koritsanszky,Christy E. Cauley,Julia L. Frydman,Rachelle Bernacki,Anne C. Mosenthal,Atul A. Gawande,Susan D. Block +7 more
TL;DR: The proposed communication framework may assist surgeons in delivering goal-concordant care for high-risk patients.
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Do differences in hospital and surgeon quality explain racial disparities in lower-extremity vascular amputations?
Scott E. Regenbogen,Atul A. Gawande,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Caprice C. Greenberg,Ashish K. Jha,Ashish K. Jha +5 more
TL;DR: 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 settings, a large study of Medicare beneficiaries 65 and older who underwent major lower- Extremity vascular procedures is evaluated.
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A Systematic Intervention To Improve Serious Illness Communication In Primary Care.
Joshua R Lakin,Luca A. Koritsanszky,Rebecca Cunningham,Francine L. Maloney,Brandon J. Neal,Joanna Paladino,Marissa Palmor,Christine Vogeli,Timothy G. Ferris,Susan D. Block,Atul A. Gawande,Rachelle Bernacki +11 more
TL;DR: Patients in the clinics with the Serious Illness Care Program implemented were more likely than those in comparison clinics to have serious illness conversations-including discussion of values and goals-documented in patients' medical records.
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Relationship Between Cesarean Delivery Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality
George Molina,Thomas G. Weiser,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Micaela M. Esquivel,Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz,Tej D. Azad,Neel Shah,Katherine Semrau,William R. Berry,Atul A. Gawande,Alex B. Haynes +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional, ecological study was conducted to estimate the relationship between national levels of cesarean delivery and maternal and neonatal mortality in 194 countries.
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Rates and patterns of death after surgery in the United States, 1996 and 2006
Marcus E. Semel,Marcus E. Semel,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Luke M. Funk,Luke M. Funk,Angela M. Bader,Angela M. Bader,Thomas G. Weiser,Thomas G. Weiser,Atul A. Gawande,Atul A. Gawande +10 more
TL;DR: Nationwide reporting on surgical mortality suggests that the number of inpatient deaths within 30 days of surgery has declined, and additional research to determine the underlying causes for decreased mortality is warranted.