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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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Critical role of identification of the second gland during unilateral parathyroid surgery: a prospective review of 119 patients with concordant localization.
TL;DR: Focused parathyroid gland exploration without IOPTH can be successfully performed in a select group of patients with dual localization by MIBI and ultrasonography, however, identification of the second ipsilateral gland may be critical to ruling out undetected multiglandular disease.
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Reasons Associated with Total Thyroidectomy as Initial Surgical Management of an Indeterminate Thyroid Nodule.
Trevor E. Angell,Chirag M. Vyas,Justine A. Barletta,Edmund S. Cibas,Nancy L. Cho,Gerard M. Doherty,Atul A. Gawande,Brooke E. Howitt,Jeffrey F. Krane,Ellen Marqusee,Kyle C. Strickland,Erik K. Alexander,Francis D. Moore,Matthew A. Nehs +13 more
TL;DR: When surgical management of an indeterminate cytology thyroid nodule was performed, several PSFs were associated with a preference by surgeons and patients for initial TT, which may be useful to consider in making decisions on initial operative extent.
The way we age now: medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?
TL;DR: Experts say they can gauge a person’s age to within five years from the examination of a single tooth—if the person has any teeth left to examine, but growing old gets in the way.
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Prevalence of Contralateral Tumors in Patients with Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Michael C. Sullivan,Paul H. Graham,Erik K. Alexander,Daniel T. Ruan,Matthew A. Nehs,Atul A. Gawande,Francis D. Moore,Brooke E. Howitt,Kyle C. Strickland,Jeffrey F. Krane,Justine A. Barletta,Nancy L. Cho +11 more
TL;DR: Bilateral disease is common in f PvPTC, primarily in the form of papillary microcarcinomas, and future monitoring of the contralateral lobe should be discussed with fvPTC patients who do not undergo completion thyroidectomy.
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Delivering more, earlier, and better goals-of-care conversations to seriously ill oncology patients.
Rachelle Bernacki,Joanna Paladino,Daniela Lamas,Mathilde Hutchings,Josh Lakin,Bridget A. Neville,Stuart R. Lipsitz,Atul A. Gawande,Susan D. Block +8 more
TL;DR: Preliminary data about the Serious Illness Care systematic approach demonstrate strong clinician adoption and acceptability and results in more, earlier, and better conversations about patient values and priorities, in addition to more patient-centered and retrievable documentation of goals of care in the medical record.