Browsing by Author "Lipsitz, Stuart"

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    • Access to essential technologies for safe childbirth: a survey of health workers in Africa and Asia 

      Spector, Jonathan Michael; Reisman, Jonathan; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger; Desai, Priya; Gawande, Atul Atmaram (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: The reliable availability of health technologies, defined as equipment, medicines, and consumable supplies, is essential to ensure successful childbirth practices proven to prevent avoidable maternal and newborn ...

    • Audit-identified avoidable factors in maternal and perinatal deaths in low resource settings: a systematic review 

      Merali, Hasan S; Lipsitz, Stuart; Hevelone, Nathanael; Gawande, Atul A; Lashoher, Angela; Agrawal, Priya; Spector, Jonathan (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Audits provide a rational framework for quality improvement by systematically assessing clinical practices against accepted standards with the aim to develop recommendations and interventions that target ...

    • Causes and patterns of readmissions in patients with common comorbidities: retrospective cohort study 

      Donzé, Jacques; Lipsitz, Stuart; Bates, David W; Schnipper, Jeffrey L (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2013)
      Objective To evaluate the primary diagnoses and patterns of 30 day readmissions and potentially avoidable readmissions in medical patients with each of the most common comorbidities. Design: Retrospective cohort study. ...

    • Craniofacial Measurements of Donors and Recipients Correlate with Aesthetic Outcome in Virtual Face Transplantation 

      S. Wallins, Joseph; Chandawarkar, Akash A.; Dobry, Allison; Diaz-Siso, J. Rodrigo; Bueno, Ericka M.; Caterson, Edward J.; Jania, Camille; Hevelone, Nathanael D.; Lipsitz, Stuart R.; Mukundan, Srinivasan; Pomahac, Bohdan (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015)
      Background: Face transplantation is an increasingly feasible option for patients with severe disfigurement. Donors and recipients are currently matched based on immune compatibility, skin characteristics, age, and gender. ...

    • Data on Medicare eligibility and cancer screening utilization 

      Meyer, Christian P.; Allard, Christopher B.; Sammon, Jesse D.; Hanske, Julian; McNabb-Baltar, Julia; Goldberg, Joel E.; Reznor, Gally; Lipsitz, Stuart R.; Choueiri, Toni K.; Nguyen, Paul L.; Weissman, Joel S.; Trinh, Quoc-Dien (Elsevier, 2016)
      Health insurance is associated with increased utilization of cancer screening services. Data on breast, prostate and colorectal cancer screening were abstracted from the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor and Surveillance System. ...

    • Development of a Charting Method to Monitor the Individual Performance of Surgeons at the Beginning of Their Career 

      Peix, Jean-Louis; Colin, Cyrille; Kraimps, Jean-Louis; Menegaux, Fabrice; Pattou, François; Sebag, Fréderic; Voirin, Nicolas; Touzet, Sandrine; Bourdy, Stéphanie; Lifante, Jean-Christophe; Duclos, Antoine; Carty, Matthew Jonathan; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Efforts to provide a valid picture of surgeons’ individual performance evolution should frame their outcomes in relation to what is expected depending on their experience. We derived the learning curve of young ...

    • The Digital Divide in Adoption and Use of a Personal Health Record 

      Yamin, Cyrus K.; Emani, Srinivas; Williams, Deborah H.; Lipsitz, Stuart; Karson, Andrew S.; Wald, Jonathan S; Bates, David (American Medical Association (AMA), 2011-03-28)
      Background: Personal health records (PHRs) offer the potential to improve the patient experience and the quality of patient care. However, the “digital divide,” the population-level gap in Internet and computer access, may ...

    • Effect of Bar-Code Technology on the Safety of Medication Administration 

      Poon, Eric G.; Keohane, Carol A.; Yoon, Catherine S.; Ditmore, Matthew; Bane, Anne; Levtzion-Korach, Osnat; Moniz, Thomas; Rothschild, Jeffrey M.; Kachalia, Allen B.; Hayes, Judy; Churchill, William W.; Lipsitz, Stuart; Whittemore, Anthony D.; Gandhi, Tejal K.; Bates, David (2009)
      BACKGROUND Serious medication errors are common in hospitals and often occur during order transcription or administration of medication. To help prevent such errors, technol- ogy has been developed to verify medications ...

    • 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 

      Semrau, Katherine E. A.; Hirschhorn, Lisa R.; Kodkany, Bhala; Spector, Jonathan M.; Tuller, Danielle E.; King, Gary; Lipsitz, Stuart; Sharma, Narender; Singh, Vinay Pratap; Kumar, Bharath; Dhingra-Kumar, Neelam; Firestone, Rebecca; Kumar, Vishwajeet; Gawande, Atul A. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Effective, scalable strategies to improve maternal, fetal, and newborn health and reduce preventable morbidity and mortality are urgently needed in low- and middle-income countries. Building on the successes ...

    • Hospital Surgical Volume, Utilization, Costs and Outcomes of Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testis Cancer 

      Yu, Hua-yin; Hevelone, Nathanael D.; Patel, Sunil; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger; Hu, Jim C. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
      Objectives: Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) outcomes for testis cancer originate mostly from single-center series. We characterized population-based utilization, costs, and outcomes and assessed whether higher ...

    • Improving Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health: Prospective Pilot Study of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program 

      Kodkany, Bhala; Lashoher, Angela; Dziekan, Gerald; Bahl, Rajiv; Merialdi, Mario; Mathai, Matthews; Lemer, Claire; Spector, Jonathan Michael; Agrawal, Priya; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger; Gawande, Atul Atmaram (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Most maternal deaths, intrapartum-related stillbirths, and newborn deaths in low income countries are preventable but simple, effective methods for improving safety in institutional births have not been devised. ...

    • Methods for Analyzing Survival and Binary Data in Complex Surveys 

      Rader, Kevin Andrew (2014-06-06)
      Studies with stratified cluster designs, called complex surveys, have increased in popularity in medical research recently. With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, more information about effectiveness of treatment, ...

    • Mortality and Readmission After Cervical Fracture from a Fall in Older Adults: Comparison with Hip Fracture Using National Medicare Data 

      Cooper, Zara R; Mitchell, Susan Lisa; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger; Harris, Mitchel B; Ayanian, John; Bernacki, Rachelle Emily; Jha, Ashish Kumar (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      Background Cervical fractures from falls are a potentially lethal injury in older patients. Little is known about their epidemiology and outcomes. Objectives To examine the prevalence of cervical spine fractures ...

    • Patient Perceptions of a Personal Health Record: A Test of the Diffusion of Innovation Model 

      Emani, Srinivas; Yamin, Cyrus K; Peters, Ellen; Karson, Andrew S; Lipsitz, Stuart; Wald, Jonathan S; Williams, Deborah H; Bates, David (JMIR Publications Inc., 2012-11-05)
      Background: Personal health records (PHRs) have emerged as an important tool with which patients can electronically communicate with their doctors and doctor’s offices. However, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical ...

    • Patient- and surgeon-adjusted control charts for monitoring performance 

      Maruthappu, Mahiben; Carty, Matthew J; Lipsitz, Stuart R; Wright, John; Orgill, Dennis; Duclos, Antoine (BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)
      Objectives: To determine whether an innovative graphical tool for accurate measurement of individual surgeon performance metrics, adjusted for both surgeon-specific and patient-specific factors, significantly alters ...

    • Predictors of Mortality Up to 1 Year After Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery in Older Adults 

      Cooper, Zara R; Mitchell, Susan Lisa; Gorges, Rebecca J.; Rosenthal, Ronnie A.; Lipsitz, Stuart Roger; Kelley, Amy P (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      ackground The number of older patients who undergo emergent major abdominal procedures is expected to increase yet little is known about mortality beyond 30 days after surgery. Objective Identify factors associated ...

    • Risks of Complications by Attending Physicians After Performing Nighttime Procedures 

      Rothschild, Jeffrey; Keohane, Carol A.; Rogers, Selwyn; Gardner, Roxane; Lipsitz, Stuart; Salzberg, Claudia A.; Yu, Tony; Yoon, Catherine S.; Williams, Deborah H.; Wien, Matt F.; Czeisler, Charles; Bates, David; Landrigan, Christopher (American Medical Association (AMA), 2009-10-14)
      Context: Few data exist on the relationships between experienced physicians' work hours and sleep, and patient safety. Objective: To determine if sleep opportunities for attending surgeons and obstetricians/gynecologists ...

    • Size and distribution of the global volume of surgery in 2012 

      Weiser, Thomas G; Haynes, Alex B; Molina, George; Lipsitz, Stuart R; Esquivel, Micaela M; Uribe-Leitz, Tarsicio; Fu, Rui; Azad, Tej; Chao, Tiffany E; Berry, William R; Gawande, Atul A (World Health Organization, 2016)
      Abstract Objective: To estimate global surgical volume in 2012 and compare it with estimates from 2004. Methods: For the 194 Member States of the World Health Organization, we searched PubMed for studies and contacted key ...