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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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Proposed checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection
Sarah K. Abbett,Deborah S. Yokoe,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Angela M. Bader,William R. Berry,Elise M. Tamplin,Atul A. Gawande +6 more
TL;DR: The use of a checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated CDI is proposed on the basis of the experience of this intervention.
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Reducing surgical mortality in Scotland by use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
George Ramsay,George Ramsay,Alex B. Haynes,Alex B. Haynes,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Ian Solsky,J. Leitch,Atul A. Gawande,Manoj Kumar,Manoj Kumar +9 more
TL;DR: The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist has been implemented widely since its launch in 2008 and was introduced in Scotland as part of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme between 2008 and 2010.
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Bethesda Categorization of Thyroid Nodule Cytology and Prediction of Thyroid Cancer Type and Prognosis
Xiaoyun Liu,Xiaoyun Liu,Marco Medici,Norra Kwong,Trevor E. Angell,Ellen Marqusee,Matthew I. Kim,P. Reed Larsen,Nancy L. Cho,Matthew A. Nehs,Daniel T. Ruan,Atul A. Gawande,Francis D. Moore,Justine A. Barletta,Jeffrey F. Krane,Edmund S. Cibas,Tao Yang,Erik K. Alexander +17 more
TL;DR: In addition to predicting cancer prevalence, the TBS also imparts important prognostic information about cancer type, variant, and risk of recurrence, which extends the utility of TBS classification by fostering an improved understanding of the risk posed by any confirmed malignancy.
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On Washing Hands
TL;DR: One afternoon last December, I took a tour of my hospital with Deborah Yokoe, an infectious-disease specialist, and Susan Marino, a medical technologist by training, and their full-time job is to stop the spread of infection in the hospital.
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Designing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program to improve quality of care at childbirth
Jonathan M. Spector,Angela Lashoher,Priya Agrawal,Claire Lemer,Gerald Dziekan,Rajiv Bahl,Matthews Mathai,Mario Merialdi,William R. Berry,Atul A. Gawande +9 more
TL;DR: The World Health Organization led the design and field testing of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist—a 29‐item tool that targets the major causes of maternal and newborn mortality globally.