Publications by authors named "Anthony Bitar"
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- Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) is linked to increased autism symptoms and diagnosis in young boys with low aromatase gene activity.
- Research indicates that high BPA levels impact brain methylation patterns related to aromatase, which may mediate the risk of autism.
- Male mice studies suggest that mid-gestation BPA exposure causes ASD-like behaviors, but these can be improved with the intervention of 10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid (10HDA).
Objectives: Team culture underpins team performance. Psychological safety - 'a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking' - is a critical component of team culture for high-performing teams across contexts. However, psychological safety in ED teams has not been well explored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Simulation facilitators strive to ensure the psychological safety of participants during simulation events; however, we have limited understanding of how antecedent levels of psychological safety impact the simulation experience or how the simulation experience impacts real-world psychological safety.
Methods: We explored the experience of participants in an embedded, interprofessional simulation program at a large tertiary emergency department (ED) in Australia. We engaged in theoretical thematic analysis of sequential narrative surveys and semi-structured interviews using a previously derived framework of enablers of psychological safety in healthcare.
Background: Endovascular aneurysm repair is the standard of care for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, however data regarding adjunctive stenting at the time of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) are limited. The study aims to evaluate outcomes of patients undergoing EVAR with and without adjunctive stenting.
Methods: Patients undergoing EVAR with stenting (EVAR-S) and without stenting (EVAR) (2008 - 2017) were selected from Cerner HealthFacts database using ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes.