Todd A. Jaffe

ORCID: 0000-0003-4430-2919
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Research Areas
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
  • Shoulder Injury and Treatment
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Social Media in Health Education
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Cardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection

University of Pennsylvania
2024

Massachusetts General Hospital
2018-2022

Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency
2018-2021

Brigham and Women's Hospital
2018-2021

Harvard University
2020

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
2016-2018

Pain Management Institute
2013

The use of telemedicine has grown immensely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine provides a means to deliver clinical care while limiting patient and provider exposure COVID-19. As such, is finding applications in variety environments including primary acute setting array populations who continues grow. Yet as telehealth becomes ubiquitous, it critical consider its potential exacerbate disparities care. Challenges accessing technology digital literacy, for example, disproportionately...

10.1136/emermed-2020-210896 article EN Emergency Medicine Journal 2021-03-04

To assess the value of bundling perioperative care measures in colon surgery.Surgical site infections (SSI) colectomy are associated with increased morbidity and cost. Perioperative has been designed to improve processes surrounding operations.Retrospective cohort study performed by Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative (MSQC) patients who underwent elective surgery from 2012 2015. We identified 3,387 MSQC database surgery. Of these cases, 332 had episodic cost data.High compliance (3-6...

10.1097/sla.0000000000001880 article EN Annals of Surgery 2016-08-18

This Viewpoint explores the limits of methods used in Surgeon Scorecard, uses laparoscopic cholecystectomy data to illustrate inherent statistical challenges Scorecard faces, and suggests improvements for future surgical performance assessments.

10.1001/jamasurg.2015.5459 article EN JAMA Surgery 2016-02-04

Methylene chloride is a volatile, chlorinated hydrocarbon and colorless solvent found in multiple industrial products including paint strippers, metal cleaners, automotive products, pesticides aerosol containers. Occupational exposure to methylene reported technicians, painters, other workers with adverse health effects gastrointestinal, neurological, as well hepato-renal injuries. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies 2 A carcinogen. Through series of reactions...

10.1080/24734306.2019.1685222 article EN cc-by Toxicology Communications 2019-01-01

The intrathecal administration of morphine sulfate has become an established alternative to oral opiate therapy for the treatment chronic pain. Currently, Infumorph® is only approved by US Food and Drug Administration continuous intraspinal with infusion pump. However, in order achieve maintain adequate pain relief, patients may require concentrations outside those commercially available products resulting use compounded morphine. Accuracy, safety, efficacy data related Infumorph were...

10.1111/pme.12077 article EN Pain Medicine 2013-04-09

Introduction: Delays in identification and treatment of acute stroke contribute to significant morbidity mortality. Multiple clinical factors have been associated with delays care. We aimed determine the relationship between emergency department (ED) crowding delivery timely care.Methods: used prospectively collected data from our institutional Get Guidelines-Stroke registry identify consecutive ischemic patients presenting urban academic ED July 2016–August 2018. capacity logs degree at...

10.5811/westjem.2020.5.45873 article EN cc-by Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020-07-08

Abstract Objective Back pain is one of the most common syndromes in United States, but there has been limited recent description role emergency departments (EDs) caring for patients with back pain. We investigated trends evaluation and management U.S. EDs from 2007 to 2016. Methods performed a retrospective analysis National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, nationally representative annual survey ED visits, which includes data on patient-, hospital-, visit-level characteristics....

10.1093/pm/pnaa385 article EN Pain Medicine 2020-09-30

10.1016/j.jemermed.2020.06.050 article EN Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020-08-20
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