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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he is executive director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. On June 20, 2018, Gawande was named the CEO of healthcare venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase and stepped down as CEO in May 2020, remaining as executive chairman while the organization sought a new CEO.
Atul Gawande's Published Works
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Published Works
- A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population (2009) (4767)
- An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data (2008) (2215)
- Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development (2015) (1844)
- Improving safety with information technology. (2003) (1462)
- Analysis of errors reported by surgeons at three teaching hospitals. (2003) (954)
- The incidence and nature of surgical adverse events in Colorado and Utah in 1992. (1999) (925)
- Patterns of communication breakdowns resulting in injury to surgical patients. (2007) (777)
- Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation. (2006) (749)
- Long‐term assessment of a multidisciplinary approach to thyroid nodule diagnostic evaluation (2007) (691)
- Variation in surgical-readmission rates and quality of hospital care. (2013) (586)
- Casualties of war--military care for the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan. (2004) (555)
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (2011) (537)
- Estimate of the global volume of surgery in 2012: an assessment supporting improved health outcomes (2015) (518)
- Simulation-based trial of surgical-crisis checklists. (2013) (489)
- Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention (2011) (470)
- Relationship Between Cesarean Delivery Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality. (2015) (458)
- National costs of the medical liability system. (2010) (437)
- An Apgar score for surgery. (2007) (436)
- Effect of A 19-Item Surgical Safety Checklist During Urgent Operations in A Global Patient Population (2010) (420)
- Size and distribution of the global volume of surgery in 2012 (2016) (413)
- The global burden (2015) (410)
- The bell curve. (2005) (381)
- Analysis of surgical errors in closed malpractice claims at 4 liability insurers. (2006) (377)
- Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data (2010) (370)
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002) (360)
- Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery. (2003) (359)
- Effective surgical safety checklist implementation. (2011) (333)
- Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us (2017) (288)
- The intensity and variation of surgical care at the end of life: a retrospective cohort study (2011) (284)
- Managing COVID-19 in Surgical Systems (2020) (273)
- Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. (2010) (260)
- Incidence, patterns, and prevention of wrong-site surgery. (2006) (258)
- Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention (2015) (250)
- Essential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition (2015) (245)
- Crisis checklists for the operating room: development and pilot testing. (2011) (234)
- Thyroid nodule size and prediction of cancer. (2013) (221)
- The Checklist Manifesto (2009) (220)
- Contribution of preventable acute care spending to total spending for high-cost Medicare patients. (2013) (198)
- Improving Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health: Prospective Pilot Study of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program (2012) (193)
- Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality. (2005) (191)
- The hot spotters: can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care? (2011) (190)
- Relationship between occurrence of surgical complications and hospital finances. (2013) (189)
- Postgame analysis: using video-based coaching for continuous professional development. (2012) (186)
- Proficiency of Surgeons in Inguinal Hernia Repair: Effect of Experience and Age (2005) (171)
- Effect of the Serious Illness Care Program in Outpatient Oncology: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. (2019) (170)
- Patterns of Technical Error Among Surgical Malpractice Claims: An Analysis of Strategies to Prevent Injury to Surgical Patients (2007) (169)
- Evaluating an Intervention to Improve Communication Between Oncology Clinicians and Patients With Life-Limiting Cancer: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial of the Serious Illness Care Program. (2019) (168)
- Adopting a surgical safety checklist could save money and improve the quality of care in U.S. hospitals. (2010) (167)
- Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. (2016) (164)
- Utility of the surgical apgar score: validation in 4119 patients. (2009) (162)
- Hospital board and management practices are strongly related to hospital performance on clinical quality metrics. (2015) (144)
- Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 1. Essential Surgery (2015) (138)
- Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance (2009) (137)
- Disclosure of medical injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategy. (2007) (128)
- Bar-coding Surgical Sponges To Improve Safety: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2008) (126)
- Pilot Testing of a Model for Insurer-Driven, Large-Scale Multicenter Simulation Training for Operating Room Teams (2014) (125)
- The checklist: if something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do? (2007) (125)
- Downwardly mobile: the accidental cost of being uninsured. (2009) (121)
- Pitfalls in Communication That Lead to Nonbeneficial Emergency Surgery in Elderly Patients With Serious Illness: Description of the Problem and Elements of a Solution (2014) (119)
- Universal health coverage and intersectoral action for health: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition (2017) (118)
- Implementation of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist, Including Introduction of Pulse Oximetry, in a Resource-Limited Setting (2013) (116)
- Outcomes of implementing a coaching-based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program in India (2017) (116)
- The Frequency and Significance of Discrepancies in the Surgical Count (2008) (114)
- Recommendations for Best Communication Practices to Facilitate Goal-concordant Care for Seriously Ill Older Patients With Emergency Surgical Conditions. (2016) (113)
- Two hundred years of surgery. (2012) (113)
- Rates and patterns of death after surgery in the United States, 1996 and 2006. (2012) (113)
- Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries. (2011) (111)
- A Systematic Intervention To Improve Serious Illness Communication In Primary Care. (2017) (111)
- Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. (2015) (108)
- Quantity and Quality of Life: Duties of Care in Life-Limiting Illness. (2016) (106)
- Reassessment of parathyroid hormone monitoring during parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism after 2 preoperative localization studies. (2006) (105)
- Outcomes of a Coaching-based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program in India (2018) (104)
- Measuring critical deficits in shared decision making before elective surgery. (2014) (104)
- Do Differences in Hospital and Surgeon Quality Explain Racial Disparities in Lower-Extremity Vascular Amputations? (2009) (103)
- Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: intracranial neoplasm surgery. (2012) (103)
- The incidence of hypoxemia during surgery: evidence from two institutions (2010) (100)
- Accuracy of 4-dimensional computed tomography in poorly localized patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. (2010) (98)
- Complementing Operating Room Teaching With Video-Based Coaching (2017) (97)
- Surgical apgar outcome score: perioperative risk assessment for radical cystectomy. (2009) (88)
- How South Korea Responded to the Covid-19 Outbreak in Daegu (2020) (86)
- Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery. (2012) (85)
- Error in Medicine: What Have We Learned? (2000) (84)
- Audit-identified avoidable factors in maternal and perinatal deaths in low resource settings: a systematic review (2014) (83)
- The intraoperative Surgical Apgar Score predicts postdischarge complications after colon and rectal resection. (2010) (82)
- Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative (2017) (82)
- Does dissatisfaction with health plans stem from having no choices? (1998) (81)
- Prevention of retained surgical sponges: a decision-analytic model predicting relative cost-effectiveness. (2009) (79)
- Femtosecond laser-tissue interactions: Retinal injury studies (1987) (79)
- When law and ethics collide--why physicians participate in executions. (2006) (76)
- Does the Surgical Apgar Score Measure Intraoperative Performance? (2008) (74)
- patient safety Improving Safety with Information Technology (2003) (73)
- Proposed Checklist of Hospital Interventions to Decrease the Incidence of Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection (2009) (72)
- Esophagectomy Outcomes at Low-Volume Hospitals: The Association Between Systems Characteristics and Mortality (2011) (70)
- The variable phenotype and low-risk nature of RAS-positive thyroid nodules (2015) (70)
- Reducing surgical mortality in Scotland by use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (2019) (69)
- Being mortal : illness, medicine and what matters in the end (2014) (69)
- Designing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program to improve quality of care at childbirth (2013) (66)
- Quantifying Geographic Variation in Health Care Outcomes in the United States before and after Risk-Adjustment (2016) (66)
- Disease Control Priorities (2015) (66)
- It's Time to Adopt Electronic Prescriptions for Opioids. (2017) (65)
- Bethesda Categorization of Thyroid Nodule Cytology and Prediction of Thyroid Cancer Type and Prognosis. (2016) (65)
- On washing hands. (2004) (64)
- The Better Colectomy Project: Association of Evidence-Based Best-Practice Adherence Rates to Outcomes in Colorectal Surgery (2009) (63)
- Global Surgery 2030: Evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development. (2015) (63)
- The Surgical Apgar Score in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty (2011) (61)
- Mass-Vaccination Sites - An Essential Innovation to Curb the Covid-19 Pandemic. (2021) (59)
- Variability in mortality following caesarean delivery, appendectomy, and groin hernia repair in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and analysis of published data. (2016) (57)
- Using Smartphones to Capture Novel Recovery Metrics After Cancer Surgery. (2020) (57)
- Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: open cerebrovascular neurosurgery. (2012) (55)
- Implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist in South Carolina Hospitals Is Associated with Improvement in Perceived Perioperative Safety. (2016) (55)
- Creating the educated surgeon in the 21st century. (2001) (55)
- Are targeted preoperative risk prediction tools more powerful? A test of models for emergency colon surgery in the very elderly. (2011) (54)
- Communication Practices on 4 Harvard Surgical Services: A Surgical Safety Collaborative (2009) (53)
- Sustainability and long-term effectiveness of the WHO surgical safety checklist combined with pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting: two-year update from Moldova. (2015) (51)
- A Policy-based Intervention for the Reduction of Communication Breakdowns in Inpatient Surgical Care: Results From a Harvard Surgical Safety Collaborative (2011) (50)
- Preoperative basal calcitonin and tumor stage correlate with postoperative calcitonin normalization in patients undergoing initial surgical management of medullary thyroid carcinoma. (2011) (50)
- Effect of visual blur on contrast sensitivity. Clinical implications. (1988) (50)
- Excimer laser ablation of the lens. (1986) (50)
- The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part II. Physician-support tools. (2000) (49)
- False Negative Cytology in Large Thyroid Nodules (2014) (48)
- Essential Surgery: Key Messages of This Volume (2015) (47)
- The predictive value of the fine-needle aspiration diagnosis "suspicious for a follicular neoplasm, hurthle cell type" in patients with hashimoto thyroiditis. (2011) (46)
- Conversations about treatment preferences before high-risk surgery: a pilot study in the preoperative testing center. (2014) (45)
- COVID-19 Preparedness Within the Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthetic Ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (45)
- The impact of the Internet on quality measurement. (2000) (45)
- Demand-side interventions for maternal care: evidence of more use, not better outcomes (2015) (45)
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in Advance Care Planning: Results of a Statewide Population-Based Survey. (2018) (44)
- In-hospital Death following Inpatient Surgical Procedures in the United States, 1996–2006 (2011) (43)
- Improving Adherence to Essential Birth Practices Using the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist With Peer Coaching: Experience From 60 Public Health Facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India (2017) (41)
- Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes. (2017) (39)
- Can 360-Degree Reviews Help Surgeons? Evaluation of Multisource Feedback for Surgeons in a Multi-Institutional Quality Improvement Project. (2015) (39)
- Surgery for hyperparathyroidism in image-negative patients. (2008) (39)
- 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 (2016) (39)
- Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events and proposed strategies for reduction. (2012) (38)
- Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. (2012) (38)
- Receipt of appropriate surgical care for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer. (2011) (37)
- Excess Surgical Mortality: Strategies for Improving Quality of Care (2015) (37)
- What do we know about the safe surgery checklist now? (2015) (36)
- Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: endovascular neurosurgery. (2012) (35)
- Learning before leaping: integration of an adaptive study design process prior to initiation of BetterBirth, a large-scale randomized controlled trial in Uttar Pradesh, India (2015) (35)
- Lag time in an incident reporting system at a university hospital in Japan (2007) (35)
- Variation in the cost of 5 common operations in the United States (2017) (35)
- 4D-CT is Superior to Ultrasound and Sestamibi for Localizing Recurrent Parathyroid Disease (2018) (35)
- Beyond Volume: Does Hospital Complexity Matter? An Analysis of Inpatient Surgical Mortality in the United States (2014) (34)
- A checklist for endonasal transsphenoidal anterior skull base surgery. (2016) (33)
- Approaching Surgical Triage During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2020) (33)
- The cost of health care--highlights from a discussion about economics and reform. (2009) (32)
- How to limit caesareans on demand—too NICE to push? (2002) (32)
- Primary Health Care That Works: The Costa Rican Experience. (2017) (31)
- Organization of Essential Services and the Role of First-Level Hospitals -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (31)
- A Cohort Analysis of Clinical and Ultrasound Variables Predicting Cancer Risk in 20,001 Consecutive Thyroid Nodules. (2019) (30)
- Photoaversion in retinitis pigmentosa. (1989) (29)
- The BetterBirth Program: Pursuing Effective Adoption and Sustained Use of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Through Coaching-Based Implementation in Uttar Pradesh, India (2017) (28)
- Evaluation of a large-scale donation of Lifebox pulse oximeters to non-physician anaesthetists in Uganda (2014) (28)
- The number of surgical procedures in an American lifetime in 3 states (2008) (28)
- Differential Growth Rates of Benign vs. Malignant Thyroid Nodules (2017) (27)
- Quantitative Analysis of the Benefits and Risk of Thyroid Nodule Evaluation in Patients ≥70 Years Old. (2018) (27)
- PPE: what now for the global supply chain? (2020) (27)
- Mortality for publicly reported conditions and overall hospital mortality rates. (2013) (26)
- Cluster randomized trial to evaluate the impact of team training on surgical outcomes (2016) (25)
- Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina (2017) (25)
- The Risks to Patient Safety From Health System Expansions (2018) (25)
- The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part III. Patient-support tools. (2000) (24)
- Critical role of identification of the second gland during unilateral parathyroid surgery: a prospective review of 119 patients with concordant localization. (2011) (23)
- Avoiding low-value care. (2014) (23)
- Surgery at the End of Life: A Pilot Study Comparing Decedents and Survivors at a Tertiary Care Center (2013) (23)
- Proposed Minimum Rates of Surgery to Support Desirable Health Outcomes: An Observational Study Based on Three Strategies (2015) (23)
- Is WHO’s surgical safety checklist being hyped? (2019) (22)
- Covid-19: global vaccine production is a mess and shortages are down to more than just hoarding (2021) (22)
- Multisource Evaluation of Surgeon Behavior Is Associated With Malpractice Claims. (2019) (22)
- Surgical Team Member Assessment of the Safety of Surgery Practice in 38 South Carolina Hospitals (2015) (22)
- Clinical, Sonographic, and Pathological Characteristics of RAS-Positive Versus BRAF-Positive Thyroid Carcinoma. (2016) (21)
- Almost efficient estimation of relative risk regression. (2014) (21)
- Physicians and execution--highlights from a discussion of lethal injection. (2008) (20)
- Essential Surgery: Key Messages of This Volume -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (20)
- Approaching Surgical Triage During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (20)
- Beyond counting: current evidence on the problem of retaining foreign bodies in surgery? (2008) (19)
- Bilateral Neck Exploration Decreases Operative Time Compared to Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy in Patients with Discordant Imaging (2013) (19)
- Identification of Novel Oncogenic Mutations in Thyroid Cancer. (2016) (19)
- Peri-operative pulse oximetry in low-income countries: a cost–effectiveness analysis (2014) (19)
- Using Bayesian p‐values in a 2 × 2 table of matched pairs with incompletely classified data (2009) (19)
- Facility management associated with improved primary health care outcomes in Ghana (2019) (18)
- Bias correction for the proportional odds logistic regression model with application to a study of surgical complications (2013) (18)
- Hospital Management Practices and Availability of Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Study of Three Hospitals (2013) (18)
- Use of Public Data to Target Variation in Providers' Use of CT and MR Imaging among Medicare Beneficiaries. (2015) (18)
- Variability in mortality after caesarean delivery, appendectomy, and groin hernia repair in low-income and middle-income countries: implications for expanding surgical services (2015) (18)
- Legal Disputes over Duties to Disclose Treatment Risks to Patients: A Review of Negligence Claims and Complaints in Australia (2012) (18)
- Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience. (2018) (17)
- The Posterior Adiposity Index: A Quantitative Selection Tool for Adrenalectomy Approach. (2019) (16)
- Access to essential technologies for safe childbirth: a survey of health workers in Africa and Asia (2013) (16)
- Relationship between unplanned readmission and total treatment-related hospital days following management of complicated appendicitis at 31 children's hospitals. (2012) (16)
- Implementation of SARS-CoV2 Screening in K–12 Schools Using In-School Pooled Molecular Testing and Deconvolution by Rapid Antigen Test (2021) (15)
- Hellhole: the United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? (2009) (15)
- Health care needs a new kind of hero. Interview by Gardiner Morse. (2010) (15)
- Surgeons’ Coaching Techniques in the Surgical Coaching for Operative Performance Enhancement (SCOPE) Program (2020) (15)
- Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Etiology of Chronic and Acute Precipitating Factors and Their Effect on Mortality. (2019) (15)
- Unpacking the null: a post-hoc analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in Uttar Pradesh, India (BetterBirth) (2019) (14)
- Effect of Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features (NIFTP) on Malignancy Rates in Thyroid Nodules: How to Counsel Patients on Extent of Surgery (2018) (13)
- A Model for Better Leveraging the Point of Preoperative Assessment: Patients and Providers Look Beyond Operative Indications When Making Decisions. (2016) (13)
- How the world is (not) handling surplus doses and expiring vaccines (2021) (13)
- Implementation and results of an integrated data quality assurance protocol in a randomized controlled trial in Uttar Pradesh, India (2017) (13)
- “Disruptive” doctors are often found to be perfectionists, agency reports (2011) (13)
- Global Surgery and Poverty -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (13)
- Getting there from here: how should Obama reform health care? (2009) (12)
- You can say sorry (2009) (12)
- Task-Sharing or Public Finance for Expanding Surgical Access in Rural Ethiopia: An Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (12)
- Universal health coverage and intersectoral action for health : key messages from Disease Control Priorities , 3 rd edition (2019) (12)
- The Specificity of Colored Lenses as Visual Aids in Retinal Disease (1992) (12)
- Delivering more, earlier, and better goals-of-care conversations to seriously ill oncology patients. (2015) (12)
- Evaluating Surgical Coaching: A Mixed Methods Approach Reveals More Than Surveys Alone. (2018) (12)
- Projections for Achieving the Lancet Commission Recommended Surgical Rate of 5000 Operations per 100,000 Population by Region-Specific Surgical Rate Estimates (2015) (12)
- The way we age now: medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier? (2007) (11)
- The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part I. Information systems for medical transactions. (2000) (11)
- Simulation-Based Trial of Surgical-Crisis Checklists (2013) (11)
- A comparative analysis of incident reporting lag times in academic medical centres in Japan and the USA (2010) (11)
- Prevalence of Contralateral Tumors in Patients with Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer. (2017) (10)
- Bronchogenic cyst masquerading as an adrenal tumor: a case of mistaken identity. (2012) (10)
- Temporal Variation in Surgical Mortality Within French Hospitals (2013) (10)
- Completion Thyroidectomy is Less Common Following Updated 2015 American Thyroid Association Guidelines (2020) (10)
- Analysis of surgical errors in closed malpractice claims at four liability insurers (2006) (10)
- Testing, testing: the health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing? (2009) (10)
- A challenge for practitioners worldwide: WHO safe surgery saves lives. (2009) (10)
- Reasons Associated with Total Thyroidectomy as Initial Surgical Management of an Indeterminate Thyroid Nodule (2018) (9)
- Checklists for success inside the OR and beyond: an interview with Atul Gawanda, MD, FACS. Interview by Tony Peregrin. (2010) (9)
- How covid-19 revealed the scandal of medical oxygen supplies worldwide (2021) (8)
- Integration of the Opportunity‐Ability‐Motivation behavior change framework into a coaching‐based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program in India (2018) (8)
- Universal Health Coverage and Intersectoral Action for Health (2017) (8)
- Brushing up on doctors' communication skills (2002) (8)
- How MSF is mapping the world’s medical emergency zones (2014) (8)
- Surgical safety checklists in ontario, Canada. (2014) (8)
- Postoperative acute care use after freestanding ambulatory surgery. (2016) (8)
- Type 2 diabetes: 5000 patients to test feasibility of “remission service” (2018) (8)
- Measuring the range of services clinicians are responsible for in ambulatory practice. (2012) (8)
- Eating disorders during the covid-19 pandemic (2021) (7)
- Doctors call for ban on multidose vials after hepatitis C outbreak in US (2010) (7)
- Retained foreign bodies. (2008) (7)
- Projections to achieve minimum surgical rate threshold: an observational study (2015) (7)
- Proposed minimum rates of surgery to support desirable health outcomes: an observational study based on four strategies (2015) (7)
- Does adherence to evidence-based practices during childbirth prevent perinatal mortality? A post-hoc analysis of 3,274 births in Uttar Pradesh, India (2020) (7)
- Measuring Quality of Decision-Making for Advance Care Planning and Surgery (2012) (7)
- The utility of the surprise question in identifying patients most at risk of death. (2015) (7)
- Availability of Safe Childbirth Supplies in 284 Facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India (2018) (7)
- Hemorrhagic shock as the initial manifestation of pheochromocytoma: report of a sequential management strategy. (2012) (7)
- Dentistry -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (6)
- Critical need for objective assessment of postsurgical patients. (2011) (6)
- Breaking down the barriers to a good death (2002) (6)
- Earlier identification of seriously ill patients: an implementation case series (2019) (6)
- How to Have a Good Death (2006) (6)
- Evaluation of Surgical Care in El Salvador Using the WHO Surgical Vital Statistics (2013) (6)
- Testimony Before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health A Framework for a Better Health System (2009) (6)
- Why sorry doesn’t need to be the hardest word (2011) (5)
- Effect of conversations about values and goals on anxiety in patients. (2015) (5)
- The scandal of modern slavery in the trade of masks and gloves (2020) (5)
- Clean cut surgery (2016) (5)
- Safely Practicing in a New Environment: A Qualitative Study to Inform Physician Onboarding Practices. (2020) (5)
- Disclosure: The Authors Respond (2007) (5)
- Simple Methods of Determining Confidence Intervals for Functions of Estimates in Published Results (2014) (5)
- [Checklists improve patient safety]. (2010) (5)
- Pulse oximeters for all (2011) (5)
- Bedside Availability of Prepared Oxytocin and Rapid Administration After Delivery to Prevent Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Observational Study in Karnataka, India (2015) (5)
- Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes (2018) (5)
- A Cost Analysis of Hospitalization for Vaginal and Cesarean Deliveries [282] (2015) (5)
- Integrating Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Quality Checks into the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Checklist: A Pilot Study. (2016) (4)
- A prospective study of the OR counting protocol (2007) (4)
- Novel Tool Reveals Varied Life Priorities of Advanced Cancer Patients: “Living as Long as Possible” Generally Not a Top Priority (S708) (2015) (4)
- Unsafe surgery: make it zero (2011) (4)
- Development and Feasibility Testing of a Device Briefing Tool and Training to Improve Patient Safety During Introduction of New Devices in Operating Rooms: Best Practices and Lessons Learned. (2019) (4)
- Surgical Interventions for Congenital Anomalies -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (4)
- Using the jackknife for estimation in log link Bernoulli regression models (2015) (4)
- Benefit-Cost Analysis for Selected Surgical Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (4)
- Call My Cell (2003) (4)
- Advice on sugar and starch is urged in type 2 diabetes counselling (2016) (3)
- The best American science writing. (2006) (3)
- General Surgical Emergencies -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (3)
- Global Burden of Surgical Conditions -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (3)
- Low calorie and low carb diets for weight loss in primary care (2018) (3)
- Antiretrovirals planned for developing world (1997) (3)
- Atul Gawande understanding the forces driving healthcare change. (2014) (3)
- Asthma Induced by a Thermal Printer (2009) (3)
- A simulation-based trial of surgical-crisis checklists. (2013) (3)
- Why aren’t covid-19 vaccines being manufactured in standard prefilled syringes? (2021) (3)
- Elderly people--abused and forgotten. (1988) (3)
- Error in Medicine (2001) (3)
- Health Insurance Coverage and Health. (2017) (3)
- Dispatch from India. (2003) (3)
- Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: Validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in eight countries (2009) (3)
- [Retinal effects produced by femotosecond laser pulse]. (1988) (2)
- The BMJ appeal 2020-21: Independent Food Aid Network gives a voice to those determined to make a difference (2020) (2)
- Listening to patients’ narratives can help improve quality of psychosis care (2011) (2)
- Factors associated with effective implementation of a surgical safety checklist (2010) (2)
- Systems Strategies for Better Health Throughout the Life Course: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care (2016) (2)
- Self-Expanding Metallic Stents in Malignant Biliary Obstruction-Patency and Clinical Efficacy: A Prospective Study from North India Tertiary Center (2019) (2)
- Passively Collected Smartphone Sensor Data to Detect Postoperative Events after Cancer Surgery: A Prospective, Multicenter, Proof-of-Principle Study (2019) (2)
- Comprehensive national analysis of emergency and essential surgical capacity in Rwanda (Br J Surg 2012: 99: 436–443) (2012) (2)
- Global surgery (2015) (2)
- Evaluation of a call center to assess post-discharge maternal and early neonatal outcomes of facility-based childbirth in Uttar Pradesh, India (2018) (2)
- Error in medicine: what have we learned? (2000) (2)
- sounding board Accidental Deaths , Saved Lives , and Improved Quality (2005) (2)
- Moving forward the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery: The Karad Consensus Statement. (2019) (2)
- Update of: Kara et al., The BetterBirth Program: Pursuing Effective Adoption and Sustained Use of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Through Coaching-Based Implementation in Uttar Pradesh, India (2018) (1)
- Better Outcomes, Lower Costs: How Community-Based Funders Can Transform U.S. Health Care (2012) (1)
- NEJM Perspective Roundtable: Avoiding Low-Value Care (2014) (1)
- Medical devices: new EU regulations won’t guarantee safe design, doctors warn (2019) (1)
- UK hospitals ordered to cut risk of drugs going wrongly into spinal fluid (2009) (1)
- Heartfile: using technology to get healthcare funding to poor patients in Pakistan (2012) (1)
- Lifebox: the difference a donation makes (2012) (1)
- Complications from surgery and hospital finances--reply. (2013) (1)
- Tackling the aftermath of Pakistan’s record floods (2022) (1)
- After the typhoon: how volunteer doctors are bringing medical care to those most in need (2013) (1)
- The BMJ charity appeal Christmas 2017: Médecins Sans Frontières’ volunteer doctors need your support (2017) (1)
- Lifebox: the difference a donation makes. Atul Gawande interviewed by Jane Feinmann. (2012) (1)
- Improving Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health : Prospective Pilot Study of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (2012) (1)
- Post-Game Analysis: Postoperative Video-Based Coaching for Residents (2015) (1)
- Clinical IT. Ticker taped. (2003) (1)
- The BMJ appeal 2021-22: “Without this team there would have been many more deaths”—the MSF workers dealing with mass casualty incidents in Afghanistan (2022) (1)
- Covid-19: UK’s chief scientific officer defends make up of advisory group (2020) (1)
- Practices should be able to keep money saved from putting patients on low carbohydrate diet, GP says (2017) (1)
- Shared decision making is not always a priority for patients, website finds (2011) (1)
- How covid-19 has highlighted the importance of design as well as price in the NHS supply chain (2020) (1)
- Restoring Africa’s health systems after Ebola (2015) (1)
- Workforce Innovations to Expand the Capacity for Surgical Services -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (1)
- When the masks don’t fit: the British collaboration making PPE designed for individuals (2020) (1)
- Welcome to the Oasis. (1988) (1)
- Association for surgical education Creating the educated surgeon in the 21 st century (2001) (1)
- Tackling mother-to-child HIV in Côte d'Ivoire. (1997) (1)
- The BMJ appeal 2021-22: “Doctors must raise their voices to advocate for those in Afghanistan” (2022) (1)
- What happened to our national emergency stockpiles? (2021) (1)
- Should “safe space” material be kept confidential? (2022) (1)
- SURGICAL APGAR: PERIOPERATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RADICAL CYSTECTOMY (2008) (1)
- The BMJ charity appeal Christmas 2017: help Médecins Sans Frontières’ volunteer doctors help the Rohingya people (2017) (1)
- Prehospital and Emergency Care -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (1)
- Doubts of a doctor. A new book reveals remarkable uncertainties that hide behind the sure hands of your surgeon. Interview by Linda Kulman. (2002) (1)
- Safety Attitude of Operating Room Personnel Associated With Accurate Completion of a Surgical Checklist: A Cross-sectional Observational Study (2021) (1)
- Femtosecond retinal Injury study (1986) (1)
- The BMJ appeal 2020-21: “Without good nutrition, children’s health outcomes worsen, as do their life chances” (2020) (1)
- 'I think we're finally past the death panels'. (2014) (1)
- The BMJ appeal 2021-22: “We can’t turn women away”—providing maternity care under pressure in Afghanistan (2021) (1)
- Cardiac involvement in acute pancreatitis and its effect on morbidity and mortality (2019) (1)
- Review of the impact of demand-side interventions to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes: Is quality of care a problem? (2015) (1)
- Surgical skills limit availability of essential and emergency surgery services more than lack of resources in zambian hospitals: A nationwide study (2012) (1)
- Cutting out human error (2008) (1)
- Winter appeal latest: BMJ readers raise almost £34 000 for Lifebox (2012) (1)
- Slovakian doctors promise further action to secure affordable healthcare (2012) (1)
- Hope for diabetes: five minutes with David Unwin (2020) (1)
- Prevention better than cure. (1987) (0)
- Preventable acute care spending for medicare patients-reply. (2013) (0)
- Does Dissatisfaction With Health Plans Stem (2001) (0)
- Table 16.6, Surgical Care Improvement Project: Infection-Prevention Process Measures (2015) (0)
- Hernia and Hydrocele -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (0)
- Health Affairs Performance On Clinical Quality Metrics Hospital Board And Management Practices Are Strongly Related To Hospital Bloom and Raffaella Sadun (2015) (0)
- Complications (2007) (0)
- 612: Characterizing variation in management practices among American labor & delivery units (2016) (0)
- Abstract 18033: The Contribution of Cardiovascular Spending to Total Inpatient Spending for High-Cost Patients (2013) (0)
- Economic Impact of Surgical Complications on Hospitals. (2016) (0)
- Surgical Platforms and Policies (2015) (0)
- Skherheit chirurgischer operationen (2009) (0)
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy (2006) (0)
- From good to better Toward a patient safety initiative (2012) (0)
- Panel: The nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition Volume 1: Essential surgery (2015) (0)
- Health Insurance Coverage and Health. (2017) (0)
- The Impact Of The Internet On Quality (2000) (0)
- Specialized Surgical Platforms -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (0)
- Paving the way for universal medical student training in serious illness communication: the Massachusetts Medical Schools’ Collaborative (2022) (0)
- A validated preoperative mortality prediction score for extremely elderly patients needing an emergent colectomy (2010) (0)
- More Bad News for the Uninsured—Reply (2010) (0)
- A Checklist for Endonasal Transsphenoidal Anterior Skull Base Surgery (2015) (0)
- Leveraging the Point of Preoperative Assessment to Ensure Delivery of Appropriate Surgical Care (2013) (0)
- Covid-19, Endoscopy, Protocols, Pandemic, Triage. (2020) (0)
- Surgeon leads effort for safer surgery. Interview by Pat Patterson. (2007) (0)
- Areas of overlap. (2014) (0)
- Wrong-Site Surgery—Reply (2006) (0)
- Does performance matter? Role of intraoperative factors versus preoperative risk in surgical outcomes (2007) (0)
- Studies on Pranatal Development of Stomach and Intenstine in Goat (2001) (0)
- DCP3 Series Acknowledgments (2015) (0)
- Series and Volume Editors (2015) (0)
- Turning PointAlways fight (2007) (0)
- Cold comfort: after decades of research, the common cold has revealed only some of its mysteries (特集 新型インフルエンザの最新情報) (2009) (0)
- Increased BMI is Associated With Lower Risk of Hypocalcemia in Total Thyroidectomy Patients. (2022) (0)
- Problem novca u medicini (2005) (0)
- The Economics of Surgery (2015) (0)
- Perception of surgeons participating in a multi-institutional trial of a 360 degree evaluation tool (2014) (0)
- Lymph Node Evaluation in Elderly Americans Undergoing Surgery for Colon and Gastric Cancer (2010) (0)
- Implementation of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist and pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting (2011) (0)
- Abstract 6: What Proportion of High-Cost Patients’ Inpatient Spending is Preventable? (2013) (0)
- Obstetric Surgery -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (0)
- In reply [4] (2006) (0)
- Patterns of Postoperative Care after Surgery in Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Centers in South Carolina (2015) (0)
- The Accidental Cost of Being Uninsured (2017) (0)
- Anesthesia and Perioperative Care -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (0)
- Update of: Marx Delaney et al., Improving Adherence to Essential Birth Practices Using the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist With Peer Coaching: Experience From 60 Public Health Facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India (2018) (0)
- A Baby Feeding Nipple: Simple, Cost effective, and Safe Technique for Removal of Denture (2019) (0)
- Surgery for Family Planning, Abortion, and Postabortion Care -- Essential Surgery: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1) (2015) (0)
- Apgar Score for Surgery tul (2007) (0)
- Novel strategies to prevent retained surgical sponges: A decision-analytic model predicting relative cost-effectiveness (2008) (0)
- The new Congress and the future of health care. (1995) (0)
- Paving the way for universal medical student training in serious illness communication: the Massachusetts Medical Schools’ Collaborative (2022) (0)
- Surgical Safety Checklist: The Authors Reply (2010) (0)
- More Bad News for the Uninsured. Authors' reply (2010) (0)
- Bias against female doctors won’t end until evidence based interventions are mandatory (2019) (0)
- Doctors on the move as managers. (1985) (0)
- Australian MPs visit Southport GP to learn about low carb diet for type 2 diabetes (2019) (0)
- Lifebox replies to Gøtzsche (2012) (0)
- How volunteer doctors help the world’s most vulnerable patients, from Yemen to Ukraine, Bangladesh to Bethnal Green (2018) (0)
- The BMJ Christmas appeal 2016-17: changing children’s lives through cataract surgery (2016) (0)
- FPC management. Ripples first--followed by a tidal wave. (1985) (0)
- Support the volunteer doctors helping the world’s refugees (2015) (0)
- Slovakia’s doctors prepare to strike over plans to privatise hospitals (2011) (0)
- Health authority chairmen. Topping on the Griffiths cake? (1986) (0)
- Private health care. Profits in primary care. (1985) (0)
- Family practitioner committees. Happy anniversary FPCs. (1986) (0)
- The BMJ Christmas appeal 2018: a new clinic for the UK’s most vulnerable patients (2018) (0)
- The BMJ Appeal 2022-23: Cholera on the rise and how IFRC is working to fight it (2023) (0)
- Operating efficiency. Dissecting theatre costs. (1985) (0)
- Purchasing & supply. Hotel harmony. An alternative to taking the work in-house. (2003) (0)
- Engineering masks that are fit for all (2020) (0)
- Purchasing & supply. Pillow talk. Total bed management gives trust sweet dreams. (2003) (0)
- Number of UK patients with metastatic breast cancer isn’t known (2017) (0)
- New charity hopes to provide cheap pulse oximeters to hospitals in poor countries (2010) (0)
- Canadian pharmacist receives award for standing up to campaigners over unproven cancer treatment (2019) (0)
- The BMJ Appeal Christmas 2019: With WaterAid’s help, cleaner clinics offer safer healthcare (2019) (0)
- Why ordinary Greeks need medical aid (2014) (0)
- Safety first (2009) (0)
- Cholera makes a comeback amid calls to boost vaccine production (2023) (0)
- Break the management mould. (1988) (0)
- Data from practices could enable earlier cancer diagnosis (2017) (0)
- Power struggle for FPCs. (1986) (0)
- Community psychiatry. An experiment paying dividends. (1985) (0)
- The BMJ Appeal 2022-23: How safe burial helped end the 2022 Ebola epidemic (2023) (0)
- How doctors can help end food insecurity (2021) (0)
- Drug firms have to pay $162m in damages over hepatitis C infection (2011) (0)
- The BMJ Appeal Christmas 2019: How WaterAid is bringing a sanitation revolution to all (2020) (0)
- Journey of an oximeter (2013) (0)
- Cytology on a shoestring. (1988) (0)
- Surgical Care for Thyroid Cancer in Elderly Americans (2010) (0)
- The BMJ appeal 2021-22: MSF is working to ensure the people of Afghanistan have access to healthcare (2021) (0)
- Family practitioner committees. Reviewing a major success. (1986) (0)
- A bolt from the blue for special hospitals. (1988) (0)
- Violence: no hiding place for NHS staff. (1988) (0)
- Jim'll fix it for you. (1988) (0)
- HSJ people. Back in the loop. (2004) (0)
- Eastern promise (1991) (0)
- Safer healthcare depends on in-depth investigation, not quick fixes, says expert (2011) (0)
- Community support that’s more than a sticking plaster (2021) (0)
- Photoaversion inretinitis pigmentosa (1989) (0)
- Abstract 17306: The Most Expensive Patients in the Hospital (2014) (0)
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