Publications by authors named "Kurt Lowery"
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated a patient-friendly Workbook designed to help seriously ill patients and their caregivers engage in important conversations about their care.
- Twenty-nine participants provided feedback through surveys and in-depth interviews, highlighting the Workbook's safety, acceptability, and ease of use, with ratings indicating generally positive responses.
- The findings suggest that the Workbook is most effective when introduced by a trusted individual, emphasizing the importance of context and rapport in discussions about serious illness.
Importance: Surgical coaching is maturing as a tangible strategy for surgeons' continuing professional development. Resources to spread this innovation are not yet widely available.
Objective: To identify surgeon-derived implementation recommendations for surgical coaching programs from participants' exit interviews and ratings of their coaching interactions.
Purpose: We sought to determine whether smartphone GPS data uncovered differences in recovery after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and mastectomy, and how these data aligned with self-reported quality of life (QoL).
Methods: In a prospective pilot study, adult smartphone-owners undergoing breast surgery downloaded an application that continuously collected smartphone GPS data for 1 week preoperatively and 6 months postoperatively. QoL was assessed with the Short-Form-36 (SF36) via smartphone delivery preoperatively and 4 and 12 weeks postoperatively.
Objective: To evaluate coaching techniques used by practicing surgeons who underwent dedicated coach training in a peer surgical coaching program.
Background: Surgical coaching is a developing strategy for improving surgeons' intraoperative performance. How to cultivate effective coaching skills among practicing surgeons is uncertain.
Background: Evidence for surgical coaching has yet to demonstrate an impact on surgeons' practice. We evaluated a surgical coaching program by analyzing quantitative and qualitative data on surgeons' intraoperative performance.
Methods: In the 2018-2019 Surgical Coaching for Operative Performance Enhancement (SCOPE) program, 46 practicing surgeons in multiple specialties at four academic medical centers were recruited to complete three peer coaching sessions, each comprising preoperative goal-setting, intraoperative observation, and postoperative debriefing.