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BOSTON, MA – Across the United States, millions of individuals face serious, life-limiting illness like cancer, heart disease and stroke, respiratory disease and diabetes. The final year of life with serious illness can be filled with emotional distress and uncertainty about treatment options. When people with serious illness have conversations with their doctors and nurses… Continue reading New study on Serious Illness Care Program underscores significant benefit of more, better, and earlier conversations between clinicians and patients
Faculty & Clinicians Who are considered Ariadne faculty? Ariadne faculty are clinicians or scientists who typically have an academic appointment through a Harvard-affiliated institution or have a clinical appointment. Ariadne faculty are the scientific and clinical leaders of Ariadne’s work and important leaders of the organization as a whole. Ariadne is committed to being an… Continue reading Our Unique Career Paths
Ten years ago, a team of medical experts were convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) to achieve a simple yet daunting goal. The WHO wanted to make surgery safer for everyone, everywhere. Not only that, the approach needed to be inexpensive and easy enough to impact millions of lives, in all medical settings. It… Continue reading Ten years later, Surgical Safety Checklist delivers better care for millions
Ariadne Labs teamed up with Project Syndicate to produce a podcast about our BetterBirth study in India. Our executive director Atul Gawande took over the reins and interviewed BetterBirth Director Katherine Semrau about what we learned after one of the world’s largest maternal newborn health studies. Gawande: Today I’m taking over the reins from Greg… Continue reading Atul Gawande Asks Katherine Semrau: How We Can Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
We know that seriously ill patients who have conversations with their clinicians about their goals and wishes are more likely to have better outcomes fewer non-beneficial medical interventions, and better quality of life. Yet less than one third of patients with end-stage medical diagnoses report discussing their care goals and preferences with their clinicians. In… Continue reading Research
The research conducted by the Primary Health Care team at Ariadne Labs seeks to create a clear language around what primary health care is and develop an appropriate set of measurable outcomes that can be adapted globally. We have done this by leading and collaborating on studies ranging from how to define a common primary… Continue reading Research
The BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs has been leading research to better understand what contributes to maternal and infant harm during childbirth and how best to address these challenges.
Dr. Esteban Gershanik is a Medicine Hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Pediatric Hospitalist at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he recently served as Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Monitoring Station at the Convention Center in New Orleans and Medical Director for… Continue reading Esteban Gershanik, MD, MPH, MMSc, FAAP, FHM
New study demonstrates effectiveness of serious illness communication in primary care Boston, Mass – Chronically ill patients in a high-risk management program that implemented structured, communication-based serious illness care had more meaningful and comprehensive conversations with their clinicians about their values and goals of care, according to a new study. The findings, published in the… Continue reading New study demonstrates effectiveness of serious illness communication in primary care
Harvard researchers studying primary health care in Haiti have developed a method of analyzing medical facilities that could help developing nations the world over improve their healthcare services. The results were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Dr. Margaret Kruk is the study’s senior author and serves as associate professor… Continue reading Researchers Find Vast Disparity in Access to High-Quality Primary Health Care in Haiti