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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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The Risks to Patient Safety From Health System Expansions.
TL;DR: Analysis of patient safety risks for Harvard-affiliated institutions by interviewing clinicians and convening system leaders both locally and nationally found 3 types of significant safety risks that are related to changes inpatient populations, infrastructure, or clinician practice settings.
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Surgical team member assessment of the safety of surgery practice in 38 South Carolina hospitals.
Sara J. Singer,Wei Jiang,Lyen C. Huang,Lorri R. Gibbons,Mathew V. Kiang,Lizabeth Edmondson,Atul A. Gawande,William R. Berry +7 more
TL;DR: Overall, 78% of responses were positive about surgical safety at respondent’s hospitals, but in each survey dimension, from 16% to 40% of response were neutral/negative, suggesting significant opportunity to improve surgical safety.
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Surgery at the end of life: a pilot study comparing decedents and survivors at a tertiary care center.
Caryn S. Barnet,Alexander F. Arriaga,David L. Hepner,Darin J. Correll,Atul A. Gawande,Angela M. Bader +5 more
TL;DR: Nearly 1 in 20 patients seen at the preoperative assessment clinic of a tertiary care hospital died within 1 yr of their procedure, and patient characteristics and procedure indication for decedents differed from those of survivors.
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Identification of Novel Oncogenic Mutations in Thyroid Cancer.
Susan C. Pitt,Susan C. Pitt,Roland A. Hernandez,Matthew A. Nehs,Atul A. Gawande,Francis D. Moore,Daniel T. Ruan,Nancy L. Cho +7 more
TL;DR: The analysis of 239 thyroid cancer specimens collected between January 2009 and September 2014 revealed that several previously unreported oncogenic gene mutations exist in thyroid cancers and may be targets for the development of future therapies.
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Almost efficient estimation of relative risk regression.
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Alexander F. Arriaga,Debajyoti Sinha,Caprice C. Greenberg,Atul A. Gawande +5 more
TL;DR: The relative efficiency of the Poisson regression estimator is considered and an alternative, almost efficient estimator for the RR regression parameters is developed that is applied to a study of predictors of pre-operative use of beta blockers among patients undergoing colorectal surgery after diagnosis of colon cancer.