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Kurt Bjorkman, MD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Verified email at cchmc.org
Cited by 77

Rural women family physicians: strategies for successful work-life balance

J Phillips, C Hustedde, S Bjorkman… - The Annals of Family …, 2016 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Women family physicians experience challenges in maintaining work-life balance
while practicing in rural communities. We sought to better understand the personal and …

[HTML][HTML] Utility of routine screening fetal echocardiogram in pregnancies conceived by in vitro fertilization

KR Bjorkman, SH Bjorkman, DJ Ferdman… - Fertility and sterility, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective To study the incidence and clinical significance of congenital heart defects (CHDs)
detected by fetal echocardiography in pregnancies conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF). …

Addressing mistreatment of providers by patients and family members as a patient safety event

…, H Shaikh, KM Wilkins, K Bjorkman… - Hospital …, 2022 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE Mistreatment of health care providers (HCPs) is associated with burnout and
lower-quality patient care, but mistreatment by patients and family members is underreported. …

Transcatheter utilisation of lifetech multifunction™ occluder device for closure of perimembranous and muscular ventricular septal defects: first use in North America

KR Bjorkman, O Aldoss, JR Maldonado… - Cardiology in the …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects is considered first-line therapy when
anatomically appropriate but is often challenged by proximity to the conduction system in …

Patent Ductus Arteriosus and Lung MRI Phenotype in Moderate and Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia-Pulmonary Hypertension

KR Bjorkman, KG Miles, LE Bellew… - American Journal of …, 2024 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: A hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (hsPDA) in premature
infants has been associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and pulmonary …

[HTML][HTML] Impaired Atrial Function in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Patients Using Cardiac MRI

K Miles, H Ta, K Bjorkman, R Hirsch… - Journal of …, 2024 - journalofcmr.com
Background: Impaired right atrial (RA) function is strongly predictive of worse outcomes in
pediatric and adult pulmonary hypertension (PH). 1-5 However, RA function using volumetry …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro performance of Lifetech IBS Angel™(iron-based bioresorbable scaffold) stents during overdilation for use in pediatric patients

K Bjorkman, JR Maldonado, S Saey… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives: To determine what happens with the IBS stent as it is over dilated including the
amount of foreshortening and they type of fracturing that occurs. To determine the sheath size …

Prevalence of clinically significant congenital heart defects in low-risk IVF pregnancies

SH Bjorkman, KR Bjorkman, AK Sfakianaki… - Fertility and …, 2019 - fertstert.org
Objective Current research has shown increased prevalence of congenital heart defects (CHD)
among in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancies compared to spontaneous pregnancies. We …

The tracheal sweep: novel use of tracheal landmark in echocardiography to determine aortic arch sidedness

K Bjorkman, B Thattaliyath, R Ashwath - Authorea Preprints, 2023 - techrxiv.org
Objective: Diagnosis of Aortic arch (AoA) anatomy is critical for planning cardiac surgery/intervention
and in diagnosing associated congenital heart defects. AoA sidedness is …

Mistreatment of Providers by Patients and Family Members: Effect of an Organizational Strategy on Provider Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Patient Safety Incident …

…, R Ciaburri, H Shaikh, KM Wilkins, K Bjorkman… - Academic …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: Identifying effective approaches to achieve safe and inclusive environments is a
priority for academic medical centers and health care systems. However, mistreatment of …