Publications by authors named "Laura Zebib"
Introduction: Over 100 million displaced people rely on health services in humanitarian contexts, defined as unstable or transitory settings created in response to complex emergencies. While services are often described, there is a dearth of evidence on best practices for successful implementation to guide efforts to optimize health delivery. Implementation science is a promising but underutilized tool to address this gap.
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- Resident physicians face a high risk of burnout due to demanding work conditions, leading to negative mental health impacts and lower performance quality.
- A "retrospective stressor analysis" (RSA) tool was adapted to help identify and address specific stressors in residency programs and was tested with chief residents at veteran's hospitals.
- The RSA uncovered major stressors across clinical, career, and personal life domains, prompting the identification of individual and systemic strategies for mitigating these stressors to enhance resident well-being.
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis and treatment can have a significant negative impact on sexual health, affecting patients and their partners; however, the impact on partners is insufficiently addressed in current practice.
Objective: We describe the development and validation of an instrument to measure sexual health in female partners of patients with PCa.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Questions assessing sexual health were developed through a literature review, two qualitative studies, and an expert consensus process.
Objective: To analyze AUA urology residency program websites to determine visibility of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. There is growing interest in DEI initiatives by urology applicants, and in recent years, urology programs have invested in efforts to promote DEI.
Methods: All ACGME-accredited urology residency program with a website were assessed.
Objective: To characterize unmet sexual health resource needs and preferences for interventions to address unmet needs among female partners of patients with prostate cancer (PCa), given the significant negative impact of PCa on the sexual health of partners.
Methods: We conducted an exploratory sequential mixed methods study of female partners recruited from multiple U.S.
Objective: To evaluate the value/utility of developing an online mentorship program for underrepresented in medicine (URiM) students interested in urology. The Michigan Urology Academy (MUA) was launched in 2020 to increase exposure and provide mentorship to URiM students interested in urology, in an effort to address the continued low numbers of Black and LatinX urologists in the workforce.
Methods: The 2-day virtual mentorship program was launched in June 2020 and held annually thereafter.
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) and its treatments can have a significant negative impact on the sexual health of survivors and couples, but few studies have specifically examined the impact of PCa-related sexual dysfunction on female partners of survivors.
Aim: Our objective was to perform a qualitative study to comprehensively characterize female partners' perceptions of the implications of PCa on their sex lives, as well as partners' sexual health concerns and unmet needs.
Methods: We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews about sexual health and unmet needs with female partners of PCa survivors recruited from multiple clinical locations and support groups for PCa caregivers from September 2021 to March 2022.
Objective: To determine the utility of post-operative imaging after ureteroneocystostomy and whether long-term symptom or radiographic surveillance aided in the detection of recurrent obstruction.
Materials And Methods: Adult patients were identified who underwent a ureteroneocystostomy with or without psoas hitch or Boari flap between January 2012 and June 2021. Patients who underwent a bilateral procedure, had active malignancy or immediate failure, or did not have 6 months of follow-up with 2 imaging studies were excluded.
Objectives And Background: The aim of this study was to characterize equity and inclusion in acute care surgery (ACS) with a survey to examine the demographics of ACS surgeons, the exclusionary or biased behaviors they witnessed and experienced, and where those behaviors happen. A major initiative of the Equity, Quality, and Inclusion in Trauma Surgery Practice Ad Hoc Task Force of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma was to characterize equity and inclusion in ACS. To do so, a survey was created with the above objectives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study assesses whether racial and socioeconomic diversity mitigates the existence of implicit bias in the field of trauma care among surgical health care professionals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeo-demographics of gunshot wound injuries in Miami-Dade county, 2002-2012.
BMC Public Health
February 2017
Background: We evaluated correlates of gunshot wound (GSW) injuries in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Firearm-related injury has previously been linked to socio- and geo-demographic indicators such as occupation, income, neighborhood and race in other metropolitan areas, but remains understudied in Miami.
Methods: We reviewed 4,547 cases from a Level I trauma center's patient registry involving an intentional firearm-related injury occurring from 2002 to 2012.
Background: This study assessed hemostatic function in cancer patients at high risk for venous thromboembolism.
Methods: Thirty-eight female patients (age, 53 ± 9 years) undergoing immediate postmastectomy reconstruction were prospectively studied with informed consent. Blood was sampled preoperatively, on postoperative day 1, and at 1 week follow-up.