Annals of surgery
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To assess the performance of our urology team against General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines for using chaperones during intimate clinical examination. ⋯ This is the first report using a scoring system for objective assessment of a pertinent topic such as the use of chaperone and its documentation. This managed to achieve a significant improvement in our practice.
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Observational Study
Using the Operating Room Black Box to Assess Surgical Team Member Adaptation Under Uncertainty: An Observational Study.
Identify how surgical team members uniquely contribute to teamwork and adapt their teamwork skills during instances of uncertainty. ⋯ OR Black Box enabled the assessment of critically important details about how team members uniquely contribute during instances of uncertainty. Some teamwork skills were amplified, while others dampened when dealing with IAEs. The knowledge of how each role contributes to teamwork and adapts to IAEs should be used to inform the design of tailored interventions to strengthen interprofessional teamwork.
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To determine the association between objective (geospatial) and subjective (perceived) measures of neighborhood disadvantage (ND) and aggressive breast cancer tumor biology, defined using validated social adversity-associated transcription factor (TF) activity and clinical outcomes. ⋯ In the largest human social genomics study, objective and subjective ND were significantly associated with TFs of aggressive biology and SNS activation. These TFs also correlated with worse clinical outcomes, implicating SNS activation as one potential mechanism behind ND survival disparities. These findings remain to be validated in a national cohort.