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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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Primary Health Care That Works: The Costa Rican Experience
Madeline Pesec,Hannah L. Ratcliffe,Ami Karlage,Lisa R. Hirschhorn,Atul A. Gawande,Asaf Bitton +5 more
TL;DR: This case study provides a detailed description of Costa Rica's innovative implementation of four critical service delivery reforms and explains how those reforms supported the provision of the four essential functions of primary health care: first-contact access, coordination, continuity, and comprehensiveness.
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Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study.
Kendra G. Bowman,Kendra G. Bowman,Goran Jovic,Shawn J. Rangel,William R. Berry,Atul A. Gawande,Atul A. Gawande +6 more
TL;DR: The primary limitation to providing pediatric surgical care in Zambia is lack of surgical skills, and efforts to improve pediatric surgery should prioritize teaching surgical skills to expand access and providing safety training, equipment and supplies to increase safety.
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Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery
TL;DR: The risk of retention of a foreign body after surgery significantly increases in emergencies, with unplanned changes in procedure, and with higher body-mass index.
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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.
Katherine Semrau,Lisa R. Hirschhorn,Bhala Kodkany,Jonathan M. Spector,Danielle E. Tuller,Gary King,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Narender Sharma,Vinay Pratap Singh,Bharath Kumar,Neelam Dhingra-Kumar,Rebecca Firestone,Vishwajeet Kumar,Atul A. Gawande +13 more
TL;DR: If effective, the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program could be a powerful health facility-strengthening intervention to improve quality of care and reduce preventable harm to women and newborns, with millions of potential beneficiaries.
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Quantitative Analysis of the Benefits and Risk of Thyroid Nodule Evaluation in Patients ≥70 Years Old
Zhihong Wang,Zhihong Wang,Chirag M. Vyas,Olivia Van Benschoten,Matthew A. Nehs,Francis D. Moore,Ellen Marqusee,Jeffrey F. Krane,Matthew I. Kim,Howard T. Heller,Atul A. Gawande,Mary C. Frates,Peter M. Doubilet,Gerard M. Doherty,Nancy L. Cho,Edmund S. Cibas,Carol B. Benson,Justine A. Barletta,Ann Marie Zavacki,P. Reed Larsen,Erik K. Alexander,Trevor E. Angell +21 more
TL;DR: For patients ≥70 years old, US and FNA are safe and prove helpful in identifying significant-risk thyroid cancer and benign cytology, however, the surgical management of patients ≥ 70 years old presenting without high-risk findings should be tempered, especially when comorbid illness is identified.