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Tomasz Brzostek
Researcher at Jagiellonian University Medical College
Publications - 86
Citations - 2755
Tomasz Brzostek is an academic researcher from Jagiellonian University Medical College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Patient safety. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 84 publications receiving 2348 citations. Previous affiliations of Tomasz Brzostek include New York Academy of Medicine & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States.
Linda H. Aiken,Walter Sermeus,Koen Van den Heede,Douglas M. Sloane,Reinhard Busse,Martin McKee,Luk Bruyneel,Anne Marie Rafferty,Peter Griffiths,María Teresa Moreno-Casbas,Carol Tishelman,Anne Scott,Tomasz Brzostek,Juha Kinnunen,René Schwendimann,Maud Heinen,Dimitris Zikos,Ingeborg Strømseng Sjetne,Herbert L. Smith,Ann Kutney-Lee +19 more
TL;DR: In European hospitals, improvement of hospital work environments might be a relatively low cost strategy to improve safety and quality in hospital care and to increase patient satisfaction.
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Nurse forecasting in Europe (RN4CAST): Rationale, design and methodology
Walter Sermeus,Linda H. Aiken,Koen Van den Heede,Anne Marie Rafferty,Peter Griffiths,María Teresa Moreno-Casbas,Reinhard Busse,Rikard Lindqvist,Anne Scott,Luk Bruyneel,Tomasz Brzostek,Juha Kinnunen,Maria Schubert,Lisette Schoonhoven,Dimitrios Zikos +14 more
TL;DR: A multi-country, multilevel cross-sectional design is used to obtain important unmeasured factors in forecasting models including how features of hospital work environments impact on nurse recruitment, retention and patient outcomes.
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A systematic survey instrument translation process for multi-country, comparative health workforce studies
Allison Squires,Linda H. Aiken,Koen Van den Heede,Walter Sermeus,Luk Bruyneel,Rikard Lindqvist,Lisette Schoonhoven,Ingeborg Stromseng,Reinhard Busse,Tomasz Brzostek,Anneli Ensio,Mayte Moreno-Casbas,Anne Marie Rafferty,Maria Schubert,Dimitris Zikos,Anne Matthews +15 more
TL;DR: The translation approach described here may help researchers reduce threats to data validity and improve instrument reliability in multinational health services research studies involving comparisons across health systems and language translation.
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Mutation A1298C of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase: risk for early coronary disease not associated with hyperhomocysteinemia.
Andrzej Szczeklik,Marek Sanak,Miłosz Jankowski,Jerzy Dropiński,Renata Czachór,Jacek Musiał,Irena Axenti,Magdalena Twardowska,Tomasz Brzostek,Michał Tendera +9 more
TL;DR: Allele 1298C of MTHFR is associated with early-onset CAD both in homozygotes and in heterozygous carriers, and homozygosity for allele 677T showed a tendency to associate with CAD.
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Efficacy of single and repeated administration of ketamine in unipolar and bipolar depression: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
Joanna Kryst,Paweł Kawalec,Paweł Kawalec,Alicja Mikrut Mitoraj,Andrzej Pilc,Andrzej Pilc,Władysław Lasoń,Tomasz Brzostek +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown for the first time that repeated ketamine administration is effective in sustaining initial antidepressant effects observed after single dosing, in patients with treatment-resistant depression.