RESEARCH

Arriaga AF, Elbardissi AW, Regenbogen SE, Greenberg CC, Berry WR, Lipsitz S, Moorman D, Kasser J, Warshaw AL, Zinner MJ, Gawande AA. A Policy-based Intervention for the Reduction of Communication Breakdowns in Inpatient Surgical Care. Annals of Surgery. 2011;253:849-854.

Kwok AC, Semel ME, Lipsitz SR, Bader AM, Barnato AE, Gawande AA, Jha AK. The intensity and variation of surgical care at the end of life: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet. Published Online October 6, 2011.

Ziewacz JE, Arriaga AF, Bader AM, Berry WR, Edmondson L, Wong JM, Lipsitz SR, Hepner DL, Peyre S, Nelson S, Boorman DJ, Smink DS, Ashley SW, Gawande AA. Crisis Checklists for the Operating Room: Development and Pilot Testing. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Aug 2011; 213(2): 212-217.

Weiser TG, Semel ME, Simon AE, Lipsitz SR, Haynes AB, Funk LM, Berry WR, Gawande AA. In-hospital Death following Inpatient Surgical Procedures in the United States, 1996-2006. World Journal Of Surgery. 6 July 2011.

Haynes AB, Regenbogen SE, Weiser TG, Lipsitz SR, Dziekan G, Berry WR, Gawande AA. Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries. Surgery. Apr 2011; 149 (4): 519-524.

Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, Lipsitz SR, Breizat AH, Dellinger EP, Dziekan G, Herbosa T, Kibatala PL, Lapitan MC, Merry AF, Reznick RK, Taylor B, Vats A, Gawande AA. Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention. BMJ Quality and Safety. Jan 2011; 20 (1): 102-107.

Conley DM, Singer SJ, Edmondson L, Berry WR, Gawande AA. Effective Surgical Safety Checklist Implementation. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2011; 212: 873-879.

Roh MH, Jo VY, Stelow EB, Faquin WC, Zou KH, Alexander EK, Larsen PR, Marqusee E, Benson CB, Frates MC, Gawande A, Moore FD Jr, Cibas ES. The Predictive Value of the Fine-Needle Aspiration Diagnosis “Suspicious for a Follicular Neoplasm, Hurthle Cell Type” in Patients with Hashimoto Thyroiditis. American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2011; 135: 139-145.

Lubitz CC, Hunter GJ, Hamberg LM, Parangi S, Ruan D, Gawande A, Gaz RD, Randolph GW, Moore FD Jr, Hodin RA, Stephen AE. Accuracy of 4-dimensional computed tomography in poorly localized patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgery. Dec 2010; 148(6): 1129-1138.

Semel ME, Bader A, Marston A, Lipsitz SR, Marshall RE, Gawande AA. Measuring the Range of Services Clinicians Are Responsible for in Ambulatory Practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Article published online, 30 November 2010.

Semel ME, Resch S, Haynes AB, Funk LM, Bader A, Berry WR, Weiser TG, Gawande AA. Adopting A Surgical Safety Checklist Could Save Money And Improve The Quality of Care in US Hospitals. Health Affairs. 2010; 29(9): 1593-1599.

Mello MM, Chandra A, Gawande AA, Studdert DM. National Costs of the Medical Liability System. Health Affairs. 2010; 29(9): 1569-1577.

Ehrenfeld JM, Funk LM, VanSchalkwyk J, Merry AF, Sandberg WS, Gawande AA. The incidence of hypoxemia during surgery: evidence from two institutions Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. Published online August 2010.

Weiser TG, Haynes AB, Lashoher A, Dziekan G, Boorman DJ, Berry WR, Gawande AA. Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. Published online August 11, 2010.

Funk LM, Weiser TG, Berry WR, Lipsitz SR, Merry AF, Enright AC, Wilson IH, Dziekan G, Gawande AA. Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. The Lancet. Published online July 1, 2010.

Regenbogen SE, Bordeianou L, Hutter MM, Gawande AA. The intraoperative Surgical Apgar Score predicts postdischarge complications after colon and rectal resection. Surgery. 2010;148(3):559-566.

Abbett SK, Yokoe DS, Lipsitz SR, Bader AM, Berry WR, Tamplin EM, Gawande AA. Proposed Checklist of Hospital Interventions to Decrease the Incidence of Healthcare-associated Clostridium Difficile Infection. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2009;30(11):1062-9.

ElBardissi AW. Regenbogen SE. Greenberg CC. Berry W. Arriaga A. Moorman D. Retik A. Warshaw AL. Zinner MJ. Gawande AA. Communication Practices on 4 Harvard Surgical Services: A Surgical Safety Collaborative. Annals of Surgery. 2009;250(6):861-5.

Rosen H. Saleh F. Lipsitz S. Rogers SO. Gawande AA. Downwardly Mobile: The Accidental Cost of Being Uninsured. Archives of Surgery. 2009;144(11):1006-1012.

Gawande AA. Fisher ES. Gruber J. Rosentahal MB. The Cost of Health Care — Highlights from a Discussion about Economics and Reform. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009 Oct 8; 361(15):1421-3.

Weiser TG. Makary MA. Haynes AB. Dziekan G. Berry WR. Gawande AA. Standardised Metrics for Global Surgical Surveillance. The Lancet. 2009; 374: 1113-1117.

Regenbogen SE. Gawande AA. Lipsitz SR. Greenberg CC. Jha AK. Do Differences in Hospital and Surgeon Quality Explain Racial Disparities in Lower-Extremity Vascular Amputations? Annals of Surgery. 2009;250(3):424-431.

Regenbogen SE. Ehrenfeld JM. Lipsitz SR. Greenberg CC. Hutter MM. Gawande AA. Utility of the Surgical Apgar Score: validation in 4,119 patients. Archives of Surgery. 2009;144(1):30-36.

Haynes AB. Weiser TG. Berry WR. Lipsitz SR. Breizat AS. Dellinger EP. Herbosa T. Joseph S. Kibatala PL. Lapitan MCM. Merry AF. Moorthy K. Reznick RK. Taylor B. Gawande AA. A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009 Jan 29; 360(5):491-9.

Gawande AA. Kaplan A. Troug R. Annas G. Perspective Roundtable: Organ Donation after Cardiac Death. New England Journal of Medicine. 2008; 359.

Gawande AA. Weiser TG. eds. World Health Organization Guidelines for Safe Surgery. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008.

Weiser TG. Regenbogen SE. Thompson KD. Haynes AB. Lipsitz SR. Berry WR. Gawande AA. An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data. The Lancet. 2008; 372: 139-144.

Greenberg CC. Gawande AA. Beyond counting: Current evidence on the problem of retaining foreign bodies in surgery. Annals of Surgery. 2008; 247:19-20.

Chan RK. Ruan DT. Gawande AA. Moore FD, Jr. Surgery for hyperparathyroidism in image-negative patients. Archives of Surgery. 2008;143:335-337.

Greenberg CC. Diaz-Flores R. Lipsitz SR. Regenbogen SE. Mulholland L. Mearn F. Rao S. Toidze T. Gawande AA. Bar-coding surgical sponges to improve safety. Annals of Surgery. 2008;247(4):612-616.

Regenbogen SE. Greenberg CC. Studdert DM. Lipsitz SR. Zinner MJ. Gawande AA. Patterns of technical error among surgical malpractice claims: an analysis of strategies to prevent injury to surgical patients. Annals of Surgery. 2007;246(5):705-11.

Greenberg CC. Regenbogen SE. Studdert DM. Lipsitz SR. Rogers SO. Zinner MJ. Gawande AA. Patterns of communication breakdowns resulting in injury to surgical patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2007;204(4):533-40.

Gawande AA, Kwaan MR, Regenbogen SE, Lipsitz SA, Zinner MJ. An Apgar Score for Surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2007; 204(2):201-208.

Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA, Brennan TA, Wang YC. Disclosure of Medical Injury to Patients: An Improbable Risk Management Strategy. Health Affairs. 2007;26(1):215-226.

Gawande AA, Moore FD, Jr. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy. Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes. 2006;13(3):248-253.

Moore FD, Jr. and Gawande AA. Adrenalectomy. In Maingot’s Abdominal Operations. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing; 2006.

Rogers SO Jr, Gawande AA, Kwaan M, Puopolo AL, Yoon C, Brennan TA, Studdert DM. Analysis of surgical errors in closed malpractice claims at 4 liability insurers.
 Surgery. 2006 Jul;140(1):25-33.

Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA, Gandhi TK, Kachalia A, Yoon C, Puopolo AL, Brennan TA. Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation.
 New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 May 11;354(19):2024-33.

Gawande AA, Monchik JM, Abbruzzese TA, Iannuccilli JD, Ibrahim SI, Moore FD Jr. Reassessment of parathyroid hormone monitoring during parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism after 2 preoperative localization studies.
Archives of Surgery. 2006 Apr;141(4):381-4; discussion 384.

Kwaan MR, Studdert DM, Zinner MJ, Gawande AA. Incidence, patterns, and prevention of wrong-site surgery. Archives of Surgery. 2006 Apr;141(4):353-7; discussion 357-8.

Gawande AA. When Law and Ethics Collide — Why Physicians Participate in Executions. New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 Mar 23; 354:1221-1229.

Neumayer LA, Gawande AA, Wang J, Giobbie-Hurder A, Itani KM, Fitzgibbons RJ Jr, Reda D, Jonasson O; CSP #456 Investigators. Proficiency of surgeons in inguinal hernia repair: effect of experience and age. Annals of Surgery. 2005; 242(3):344-8; discussion 348-52.

Brennan TA, Gawande AA, Thomas E, Studdert D. Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Sep 29;353(13):1405-9.

Gawande AA. Naked. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005 Aug 18; 353:645-648.

Gawande AA. Notes of a Surgeon: Casualties of War — Military Care for the Wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004 Dec 9; 351:2471-2475.

Gawande AA. Notes of a Surgeon: On Washing Hands. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004 Mar 25; 350:1283-1286.

Gawande AA. Notes of a Surgeon: Dispatch from India. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003 Dec 18; 349:2383-2386.

Bates DW, Gawande AA. Patient safety: Improving safety with information technology. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348:2526-34.

Gawande AA, Zinner MJ, Studdert DM, Brennan TA. Analysis of errors reported by surgeons at three teaching hospitals. Surgery. 2003;133:614-621.

Gawande AA, Studdert DM, Orav EJ, Brennan TA, Zinner MJ. Patient safety: Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348(3):229-235.

Gawande AA. Creating the educated surgeon in the twenty-first century. American Journal of Surgery. 2001;181(6):551-556.

Bates DW, Gawande AA. The impact of the internet on quality measurement. Health Affairs. 2000;19(6):104-114.

Bates DW, Gawande AA. Error in medicine: what have we learned? Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000;132:763-767.

Gawande AA, Bates DW. The use of information technology in improving medical performance. Part III. Patient-support tools. Medscape General Medicine. 2000 Feb 22:E12.

Gawande AA,Thomas EJ, Zinner MJ, Brennan TA. The incidence and nature of surgical adverse events in Colorado and Utah in 1992. Surgery. 1999;126(1):66-75.

Gawande AA, Blendon R, Brodie M, Benson JM,Levitt L, Hugick L. Does dissatisfaction with health plans stem from having no choices during enrollment? Health Affairs, 1998;17(5):184-194.

Gawande, AA. When machines become doctors, will doctors become machines? Med. Econ. 1998; 75(19): 144, 149-50, 153-5.

Gawande, AA. The new Congress and the future of health care.JAMA. 1995; 273(1):77.

Gawande, AA and Blumenthal D. Federal solutions for health care. In: Health Care 101, D Calkins, R Fernandopoule, and B Marino, eds. Blackwell Press;1995.

Gawande AA, Donovan WJ, Ginsburg AP, Marmor MF. Photoaversion in retinitis pigmentosa. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 1989;73(2):115-20.

Birngruber R, Fujimoto JG, Puliafito CA, Schoenlein RW, Lin WZ, Gawande AA. Retinal effects produced by femotosecond laser pulse. Fortschr Ophthalmology. 1988;85(6):699-704.

Marmor MF, Gawande AA. Effect of visual blur on contrast sensitivity. Clinical implications. Ophthalmology. 1988;95(1):139-43.

Nanevicz TM, Prince MR, Gawande AA, Puliafito CA. Excimer laser ablation of the lens. Archives of Ophthalmology. 1986;104(12):1825-9.

PUBLICATIONS

Personal Best
The New Yorker
September 26, 2011

A Townie Speaks
Ohio University Commencement Address
June 11, 2011

Cowboys and Pit Crews
2011 Harvard Medical School Commencement Address
May 26, 2011

The Hot Spotters
The New Yorker
January 17, 2011

Seeing Spots
The New Yorker News Desk
January 27, 2011

Letting Go
The New Yorker
July 26, 2010
(citations)

Now What?
The New Yorker
Apr 5, 2010

Testing, Testing
The New Yorker
Dec 14, 2009

The Cost Conundrum Redux
The New Yorker
News Desk Blog
Jun 23, 2009

The Cost Conundrum
The New Yorker
Jun 1, 2009

Hellhole
The New Yorker
Mar 30, 2009

Getting There from Here
The New Yorker
Jan 26, 2009

The Itch
The New Yorker
Jun 30, 2008

A Lifesaving Checklist
The New York Times
Dec 30, 2007

The Checklist
The New Yorker
Dec 10, 2007

Sick and Twisted
The New Yorker
Jul 23, 2007

The Obama Health Plan
The New York Times
May 31, 2007

A Katrina Health Care System
The New York Times
May 26, 2007

Rethinking Old Age
The New York Times
May 24, 2007

Let’s Talk About Sex
The New York Times
May 19, 2007

Doctors, Drugs, and the Poor
The New York Times
May 17, 2007

Bad Medicine, Sneaking In
The New York Times
May 12, 2007

Curing the System
The New York Times
May 10, 2007

Can This Patient Be Saved?
The New York Times
May 5, 2007

The Power of Negative Thinking
The New York Times
May 1, 2007

The Way We Age Now
The New Yorker
Apr 30, 2007

The Score
The New Yorker
Oct 9, 2006

The Malpractice Mess
The New Yorker
Nov 14, 2005

Piecework
The New Yorker
Apr 4, 2005

The Bell Curve
The New Yorker
Dec 6, 2004

The Mop-Up
The New Yorker
Jan 12, 2004

Desperate Measures
The New Yorker
May 5, 2003

Cold comfort
The New Yorker
Mar 11, 2002

The learning curve
The New Yorker
Jan 28, 2002

The man who couldn’t stop eating
The New Yorker
Jul 9, 2001

Final cut
The New Yorker
Mar 19, 2001

Crimson tide

The New Yorker

Feb 12, 2001

Under suspicion
The New Yorker
Jan 8, 2001

When good doctors go bad
The New Yorker
Aug 7, 2000

The maggot talks
New York Times Book Review
Sept 10, 2000

Where to go for medical advice on the web
The Shopping Club
Slate
Jun 15, 2000

Whose body is it anyway?
The New Yorker
Oct 4, 1999

A queasy feeling
The New Yorker
Jul 5, 1999

The cancer-cluster myth

The New Yorker

Feb 8, 1999

When doctors make mistakes

The New Yorker

Feb 1, 1999

The pain perplex
The New Yorker
Sept 21, 1998.

Organ peddling — a dialogue
Medical Examiner
Slate
Jun 2-30, 1998

Suicide watch: The strange case of Capt. Craig Button
Medical Examiner
Slate
Nov 20, 1997

The Unkindest Cut: The Science and Ethics of Castration
Medical Examiner
Slate
Jul 11, 1997

Diary of A Surgical Resident
Diaries
Slate
Jun 2-7, 1997

The Gist: Persian Gulf War Syndrome
The Gist
Slate
Oct 25, 1996

ARTICLES