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ArticleAmerican journal of surgery2024

Teaching cultural dexterity in surgical care: As essential to a surgeon's skill set as tying a knot.

Gezzer Ortega, Brittany M Dacier, Jorge Zárate Rodriguez, Maria B J Chun, N Rhea Udyavar, Benjamin G Allar, Alexander R Green, Adil H Haider, Douglas S Smink, PACTS Trial Group

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Article in American journal of surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Racial and Sex Differences in Postoperative Mortality Between Patients With Versus Without Dementia.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2026
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  4. Applying Cultural Dexterity to Patients in Radiology.Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Gezzer OrtegaCenter for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: gortega1@bwh.harvard.edu.
Brittany M DacierCenter for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
Jorge Zárate RodriguezDepartment of Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA.
Maria B J ChunDepartment of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
N Rhea UdyavarDivision of General Surgery, University of Washington, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Benjamin G AllarCenter for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Alexander R GreenDivision of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Adil H HaiderAga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Douglas S SminkCenter for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: dsmink@bwh.harvard.edu.
PACTS Trial GroupCenter for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Evaluation of a Cultural Dexterity Training Program for Surgeons: The PACTS TrialR01MD011685 · NIMHD · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI HAIDER, ADIL H, SMINK, DOUGLAS · 2018 to 2021
$3.4M
Improving Outcomes for Spanish-Speaking Surgical Patients with Limited English ProficiencyK23MD016129 · NIMHD · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Gezzer Ortega · 2022 to 2026
$864k
NIMHD NIH HHS K23 MD016129NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD011685
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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General SurgeryClinical CompetenceCultural CompetencyHumansSuture Techniques

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PMID38531750
PMCPMC12869298

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