User profiles for Brian Hurwitz

Brian Hurwitz

New York University
Verified email at nyulangone.org
Cited by 949

Why study narrative?

T Greenhalgh, B Hurwitz - Bmj, 1999 - bmj.com
One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he
went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing. It was snowing as hestumped …

[BOOK][B] Narrative research in health and illness

B Hurwitz, T Greenhalgh, V Skultans - 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… The temporal construction of medical narratives 414 Brian HurwitzBrian Balmer, a
philosopher specialising in public understanding of scientific knowledge, offers a …

Narrative and the practice of medicine

B Hurwitz - The Lancet, 2000 - thelancet.com
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The man with machinery inside him had waited several months before venturing to confide …

How does evidence based guidance influence determinations of medical negligence?

B Hurwitz - Bmj, 2004 - bmj.com
“Any doctor not fulfilling the standards and quality of care in the appropriate treatment that
are set out in these Clinical Guidelines, will have this taken into account if, for any reason, …

Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data

…, S Gault, B Alves, A Hider, S Dolan, A Cook, B Hurwitz… - Bmj, 1999 - bmj.com
Objectives: To ascertain hospital inpatient mortality in England and to determine which
factors best explain variation in standardised hospital death ratios. Design: Weighted linear …

[HTML][HTML] Developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines.

…, N Freemantle, S Wallace, I Russell, B Hurwitz… - Quality in Health …, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Effective Health Care bulletins have con-centrated on providing systematic reviews of
the research evidence on clinical and cost effectiveness to help inform decision makers and …

Legal and political considerations of clinical practice guidelines

B Hurwitz - Bmj, 1999 - bmj.com
In the 4th century bc, Plato explored the difference between skills grounded in practical
expertise and those based solely on following instructions or obeying rules. Using the clinician …

Effects of community based nurses specialising in Parkinson's disease on health outcome and costs: randomised controlled trial

B Jarman, B Hurwitz, A Cook, M Bajekal, A Lee - Bmj, 2002 - bmj.com
Objective: To determine the effects of community based nurses specialising in Parkinson's
disease on health outcomes and healthcare costs. Design: Two year randomised controlled …

Allergen injection immunotherapy for seasonal allergic rhinitis

…, B Alves, M Jacobson, B Hurwitz… - Cochrane database …, 2007 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Allergic rhinitis is the most common of the allergic diseases. Despite improved
understanding of the pathophysiology of allergic rhinitis and advances in its pharmacological …

Translation from unconventional 5′ start sites drives tumour initiation

…, EH Rodriguez, S Naik, NC Gomez, B Hurwitz… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
We are just beginning to understand how translational control affects tumour initiation and
malignancy. Here we use an epidermis-specific, in vivo ribosome profiling strategy to …