81 results match your criteria: "Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health[Affiliation]"
Communication Skills Training in Pediatric Oncology: Moving Beyond Role Modeling.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
June 2016
Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Communication is central to pediatric oncology care. Pediatric oncologists disclose life-threatening diagnoses, explain complicated treatment options, and endeavor to give honest prognoses, to maintain hope, to describe treatment complications, and to support families in difficult circumstances ranging from loss of function and fertility to treatment-related or disease-related death. However, parents, patients, and providers report substantial communication deficits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuantity and Quality of Life: Duties of Care in Life-Limiting Illness.
JAMA
January 2016
Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Global surgery.
Lancet
August 2015
Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address:
Coordination within medical neighborhoods: Insights from the early experiences of Colorado patient-centered medical homes.
Health Care Manage Rev
December 2016
Shehnaz Alidina, MPH, SD, is Qualitative and Organizational Research Specialist, Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. E-mail: Meredith Rosenthal, PhD, is Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Associate Dean for Diversity, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Eric Schneider, MSc, MD, is Director, RAND Boston, and Associate Professor, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Sara Singer, MBA, PhD, is Associate Professor, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Background: The term "medical neighborhood" refers to relationships that patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) seek to establish with other providers to facilitate coordinated patient care. Yet, how PCMHs can accomplish this coordination is not well understood.
Purpose: Drawing upon organizational theory (; ; ), we explored how PCMHs use coordination mechanisms to build and optimize their medical neighborhoods.
Bedside Availability of Prepared Oxytocin and Rapid Administration After Delivery to Prevent Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Observational Study in Karnataka, India.
Glob Health Sci Pract
June 2015
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Women's and Children's Health Research Unit, Karnataka, India.
Postpartum hemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal death worldwide. Rapid provision of uterotonics after childbirth is recommended to reduce the incidence and severity of postpartum hemorrhage. Data obtained through direct observation of childbirth practices, collected in a study of the World Health Organization's Safe Childbirth Checklist in Karnataka, India, were used to measure if oxytocin prepared for administration and available at the bedside before birth was associated with decreased time to administration after birth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEssential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition.
Lancet
May 2015
Global Health Sciences and Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco.
The World Bank will publish the nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition, in 2015-16. Volume 1--Essential Surgery--identifies 44 surgical procedures as essential on the basis that they address substantial needs, are cost effective, and are feasible to implement. This report summarises and critically assesses the volume's five key findings.
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