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False Negative Cytology in Large Thyroid Nodules
Annals of Surgical Oncology Published July 30, 2014
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Areas of Overlap
JAMA Surgery Published June 25, 2014
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Surgical safety checklists in Ontario, Canada
New England Journal of Medicine Published June 12, 2014
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Simple methods of determining confidence intervals for functions of estimates in published results
PLoS One Published May 28, 2014
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Conversations about treatment preferences before high-risk surgery: A pilot study in the preoperative testing center
Journal of Palliative Medicine Published online May 15, 2014
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Evaluation of a large-scale donation of Lifebox pulse oximeters to non-physician anaesthetists in Uganda
Anaesthesia Published May 2014.
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Atul Gawande understanding the forces driving healthcare change
Healthcare Financial Management Published May 2014
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Almost efficient estimation of relative risk regression
Biostatistics Published online April 4, 2014.
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Avoiding Low-Value Care
New England Journal of Medicine Published online April 3, 2014.
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Pilot testing of a model for insurer-driven, large-scale multicenter simulation training for operating room teams
Annals of Surgery. 2014 Mar; 259(3): 403-10.
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Measuring critical deficits in shared decision making before elective surgery
Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Mar; 94(3):328-33.
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Beyond volume: does hospital complexity matter?: an analysis of inpatient mortality in the United States
Med Care. 2014 Mar; 52(3):235-42.
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Temporal variation in surgical mortality within French hospitals
Med Care. 2013 Dec; 51(12): 1085-93.
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Preventable acute care spending for medicare patients-reply
JAMA. 2013 Nov 13; 310(18): 1985/
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Surgery at the end of life: a pilot study comparing decedents and survivors at a tertiary care center
Anesthesiology. 2013 Oct; 119 (4): 796-801.
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Variation in Surgical-Readmission Rates and Quality of Hospital Care
New England Journal of Medicine Published online September, 2013.
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Hospital Management Practices and Availability of Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Study of Three Hospitals
World Journal of Surgery Published online August, 2013.
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Bilateral neck exploration decreases operative time compared to minimally invasive parathyroidectomy in patients with discordant imaging
World Journal of Surgery Published online July, 2013.
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Contribution of Preventable Acute Care Spending to Total Spending for High-Cost Medicare Patients
JAMA Published online June 24, 2013.
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Mortality for Publicly Reported Conditions and Overall Hospital Mortality Rates
JAMA Published online June 24, 2013.
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Designing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program to Improve Quality of Care at Childbirth
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics Published online June 5, 2013.
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Relationship between unplanned readmission and total treatment-related hospital days following management of complicated appendicitis at 31 children’s hospitals
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Published online June, 2013.
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Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: A nationwide study
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Published online June, 2013.
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Relationship Between Occurrence of Surgical Complications and Hospital Finances
JAMA April 17, 2013;309:1599-1606.
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Evaluation of Surgical Care in El Salvador Using the WHO Surgical Vital Statistics
World Journal of Surgery Published online, March 2013.
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Access to Essential Technologies for Safe Childbirth: A Survey of Health Workers in Africa and Asia
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth February 20, 2013;13:43-49.
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Simulation-Based Trial of Surgical-Crisis Checklists
New England Journal Of Medicine 2013;368:246-53.
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Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events and proposed strategies for reduction
Journal of Neurosurgery 2012;33(5):E1.
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Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery
Journal of Neurosurgery 2012;33(5):E13.
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Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: endovascular neurosurgery
Journal of Neurosurgery 2012;33(5):E14.
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Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: intracranial neoplasm surgery
Journal of Neurosurgery 2012;33(5):E16.
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Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: open cerebrovascular neurosurgery
Journal of Neurosurgery 2012;33(5):E15.
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Bias Correction for the Proportional Odds Logistic Regression Model with Application to a Study of Surgical Complications
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C Published Online, October 2012.
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Measuring the Range of Services Clinicians Are Responsible for in Ambulatory Practice
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2012;18(2):404-408.
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Commentary: Comprehensive national analysis of emergency and essential surgical capacity in Rwanda
British Journal of Surgery 2012; 99: 444. Published Online January 30, 2012.
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The intensity and variation of surgical care at the end of life: a retrospective cohort study
Lancet. 2011;378(9800):1408-1413.
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In-hospital Death following Inpatient Surgical Procedures in the United States, 1996-2006
World Journal Of Surgery. 2011;35(9):1950-1956.
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Crisis Checklists for the Operating Room: Development and Pilot Testing
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Aug 2011; 213(2): 212-217.
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A Policy-based Intervention for the Reduction of Communication Breakdowns in Inpatient Surgical Care
Annals of Surgery. 2011;253:849-854.
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Effective Surgical Safety Checklist Implementation
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2011; 212: 873-879.
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Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries
Surgery. Apr 2011; 149 (4): 519-524.
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Predictive Value of … “Suspicious for a Follicular Neoplasm…” in Patients w/ Hashimoto Thyroiditis
American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2011; 135: 139-145.
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Changes … following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention
BMJ Quality and Safety. Jan 2011; 20 (1): 102-107.
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Accuracy of 4-dimensional computed tomography in poorly localized patients with primary hyperparathyroidism
Surgery. Dec 2010; 148(6): 1129-1138.
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The incidence of hypoxemia during surgery: evidence from two institutions
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. 2010;57(10):888-897.
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The intraoperative Surgical Apgar Score predicts postdischarge complications after colon and rectal resection.
Surgery. 2010;148(3):559-566.
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National Costs of the Medical Liability System
Health Affairs. 2010; 29(9): 1569-1577.
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Adopting A Surgical Safety Checklist Could Save Money And Improve The Quality of Care in US Hospitals
Health Affairs. 2010; 29(9): 1593-1599.
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Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2010;22(5):365-370.
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Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data.
The Lancet. 2010;376(9746):1055-1061.
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Communication Practices on 4 Harvard Surgical Services: A Surgical Safety Collaborative.
Annals of Surgery. 2009;250(6):861-5.
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Downwardly Mobile: The Accidental Cost of Being Uninsured
Archives of Surgery. 2009;144(11):1006-1012.
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Proposed Checklist of Hospital Interventions to Decrease the Incidence of Healthcare-associated Clostridium Difficile Infection.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2009;30(11):1062-9.
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The Cost of Health Care — Highlights from a Discussion about Economics and Reform.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2009 Oct 8; 361(15):1421-3.
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Standardised Metrics for Global Surgical Surveillance.
The Lancet. 2009; 374: 1113-1117.
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Do Differences in Hospital and Surgeon Quality Explain Racial Disparities in Lower-Extremity Vascular Amputations?
Annals of Surgery. 2009;250(3):424-431.
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A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2009 Jan 29; 360(5):491-9.
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Utility of the Surgical Apgar Score: validation in 4,119 patients
Archives of Surgery. 2009;144(1):30-36.
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World Health Organization Guidelines for Safe Surgery.
Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008.
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An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data.
The Lancet. 2008; 372: 139-144.
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Bar-coding surgical sponges to improve safety
Annals of Surgery. 2008;247(4):612-616.
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Surgery for hyperparathyroidism in image-negative patients.
Archives of Surgery. 2008;143:335-337.
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Perspective Roundtable: Organ Donation after Cardiac Death.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2008; 359.
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Patterns of technical error among surgical malpractice claims: an analysis of strategies to prevent injury to surgical patients
Annals of Surgery. 2007;246(5):705-11.
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Patterns of communication breakdowns resulting in injury to surgical patients.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2007;204(4):533-40.
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An Apgar Score for Surgery
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2007; 204(2):201-208.
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Disclosure of Medical Injury to Patients: An Improbable Risk Management Strategy.
Health Affairs. 2007;26(1):215-226.
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Analysis of surgical errors in closed malpractice claims at 4 liability insurers.
Surgery. 2006 Jul;140(1):25-33.
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Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 May 11;354(19):2024-33.
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Incidence, patterns, and prevention of wrong-site surgery.
Archives of Surgery. 2006 Apr;141(4):353-7; discussion 357-8.
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Reassessment of parathyroid hormone monitoring during parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism after 2 preoperative localization studies.
Archives of Surgery. 2006 Apr;141(4):381-4; discussion 384.
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When Law and Ethics Collide — Why Physicians Participate in Executions
New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 Mar 23; 354:1221-1229.
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Adrenalectomy
In Maingot’s Abdominal Operations. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing; 2006.
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Laparoscopic adrenalectomy
Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes. 2006;13(3):248-253.
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Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Sep 29;353(13):1405-9.
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Proficiency of surgeons in inguinal hernia repair: effect of experience and age.
Annals of Surgery. 2005; 242(3):344-8; discussion 348-52.
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Naked
New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Aug 18; 353:645-648.
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Notes of a Surgeon: Casualties of War — Military Care for the Wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan
New England Journal of Medicine. 2004 Dec 9; 351:2471-2475.
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Notes of a Surgeon: On Washing Hands
New England Journal of Medicine. 2004 Mar 25; 350:1283-1286.
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Notes of a Surgeon: Dispatch from India
New England Journal of Medicine. 2003 Dec 18; 349:2383-2386.
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Patient safety: Improving safety with information technology.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348:2526-34.
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Analysis of errors reported by surgeons at three teaching hospitals.
Surgery. 2003;133:614-621.
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Patient safety: Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348(3):229-235.
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The impact of the internet on quality measurement.
Health Affairs. 2000;19(6):104-114.
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Error in medicine: what have we learned?
Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000;132:763-767.
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The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part III. Patient-support tools.
Medscape General Medicine. 2000 Feb 22:E12.
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The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part II. Physician-support tools.
Medscape General Medicine. 2000 Feb 14:E13.
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The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part I. Information systems for medical transactions.
Medscape General Medicine. 2000 Feb 7:E14.
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The incidence and nature of surgical adverse events in Colorado and Utah in 1992
Surgery. 1999;126(1):66-75.
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Does dissatisfaction with health plans stem from having no choices during enrollment?
Health Affairs, 1998;17(5):184-194.
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When machines become doctors, will doctors become machines?
Med. Econ. 1998; 75(19): 144, 149-50, 153-5.
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The new Congress and the future of health care.
JAMA. 1995; 273(1):77.
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Photoaversion in retinitis pigmentosa.
British Journal of Ophthalmology. 1989;73(2):115-20.
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Effect of visual blur on contrast sensitivity.
Clinical implications. Ophthalmology. 1988;95(1):139-43.
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Retinal effects produced by femotosecond laser pulse.
Fortschr Ophthalmology. 1988;85(6):699-704.
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Excimer laser ablation of the lens.
Archives of Ophthalmology. 1986;104(12):1825-9.
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Creating the educated surgeon in the twenty-first century.
American Journal of Surgery. 2001;181(6):551-556.