Esteban Gandara

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Deficits in discharge documentation in patients transferred to rehabilitation facilities on anticoagulation: results of a systemwide evaluation
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:460-3. 2008
  2. ncbi Communication and information deficits in patients discharged to rehabilitation facilities: an evaluation of five acute care hospitals
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02120 1613, USA
    J Hosp Med 4:E28-33. 2009
  3. ncbi Discharge documentation of patients discharged to subacute facilities: a three-year quality improvement process across an integrated health care system
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:243-51. 2010
  4. ncbi Single-parameter early warning criteria to predict life-threatening adverse events
    Jeffrey M Rothschild
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Patient Saf 6:97-101. 2010
  5. ncbi Improving adherence to treatment guidelines: a blueprint
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Crit Pathw Cardiol 8:139-45. 2009

Collaborators

  • Jeffrey M Rothschild
  • David W Bates
  • Seth Woolf
  • Deborah H Williams

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi Deficits in discharge documentation in patients transferred to rehabilitation facilities on anticoagulation: results of a systemwide evaluation
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:460-3. 2008
    ..Anticoagulation is a commonly prescribed and effective therapy for several medical conditions but requires detailed communication among clinicians to avoid adverse patient outcomes following hospital discharge...
  2. ncbi Communication and information deficits in patients discharged to rehabilitation facilities: an evaluation of five acute care hospitals
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02120 1613, USA
    J Hosp Med 4:E28-33. 2009
    ..The quality of discharge documentation in patients discharged to rehabilitation centers and other subacute facilities is less well studied than that of patients discharged home...
  3. ncbi Discharge documentation of patients discharged to subacute facilities: a three-year quality improvement process across an integrated health care system
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:243-51. 2010
    ..Partners Healthcare (Boston) has been engaged in a multi-year process to measure and improve the quality of documentation of all patients discharged from its five acute care hospitals to subacute facilities...
  4. ncbi Single-parameter early warning criteria to predict life-threatening adverse events
    Jeffrey M Rothschild
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Patient Saf 6:97-101. 2010
    ..Early warning criteria ("criteria"), used to activate rapid response system (RRS) teams, may improve patient outcomes by predicting life-threatening adverse events--urgent intensive care unit (ICU) transfers and cardiac arrests...
  5. ncbi Improving adherence to treatment guidelines: a blueprint
    Esteban Gandara
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Crit Pathw Cardiol 8:139-45. 2009
    ..We also describe the critical lessons we have learned in implementing our intervention, including the successes and barriers we encountered during the project...