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    • Attitudes of Healthcare Workers in U.S. Hospitals Regarding Smallpox Vaccination 

      Yih, Katherine Katherine; Lieu, Tracy Ann; Rêgo, Virginia H; O'Brien, Megan A; Shay, David K; Yokoe, Deborah Stephanie; Platt, Richard (BioMed Central, 2003)
      Background: The United States is implementing plans to immunize 500,000 hospital-based healthcare workers against smallpox. Vaccination is voluntary, and it is unknown what factors drive vaccine acceptance. This study's ...
    • Automated Identification of Acute Hepatitis B Using Electronic Medical Record Data to Facilitate Public Health Surveillance 

      Haney, Gillian; Church, Daniel; Hou, Xuanlin; Ramsay, Mary; Klompas, Michael; Lazarus, Ross; Platt, Richard (Public Library of Science, 2008)
      Background: Automatic identification of notifiable diseases from electronic medical records can potentially improve the timeliness and completeness of public health surveillance. We describe the development and implementation ...
    • Automated Methods for Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections 

      Platt, Richard; Yokoe, Deborah Stephanie; Sands, Kenneth Eliot Frederick (Centers for Disease Control, 2001)
      Automated data, especially from pharmacy and administrative claims, are available for much of the U.S. population and might substantially improve both inpatient and postdischarge surveillance for surgical site infections ...
    • Can Managed Health Care Help Manage Health Care-Associated Infections? 

      Platt, Richard; Caldwell, Blake (National Center for Infectious Diseases, 2001)
      Managed-care organizations have a unique opportunity, still largely unrealized, to collaborate with health-care providers and epidemiologists to prevent health care-associated infections. Several attributes make these ...
    • A Cohort Study of Possible Risk Factors for Over-Reporting of Antihypertensive Adherence 

      Choo, Peter W; Rand, Cynthia S; Inui, Thomas S; Lee, Mei-Ling Ting; Canning, Claire; Platt, Richard (BioMed Central, 2001)
      Background: The identification of poor medicinal adherence is difficult because direct observation of medication use is usually impractical. Up to 50% of individuals on chronic therapies may not be taking their medication ...
    • Colonization with Antibiotic-Susceptible Strains Protects against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Acquisition: A Nested Case-Control Study 

      Huang, Susan Shih; Datta, Rupak; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Placzek, Hilary; Lankiewicz, Julie D.; Platt, Richard (BioMed Central, 2011)
      Introduction: Harboring sensitive strains may prevent acquisition of resistant pathogens by competing for colonization of ecological niches. Competition may be relevant to decolonization strategies that eliminate sensitive ...
    • Confounding by indication affects antimicrobial risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition 

      Datta, Rupak; Kleinman, Ken; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl; Placzek, Hilary; Lankiewicz, Julie; Platt, Richard; Huang, Susan S (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Observational studies rarely account for confounding by indication, whereby empiric antibiotics initiated for signs and symptoms of infection prior to the diagnosis of infection are then viewed as risk factors ...
    • Distributed Data Processing for Public Health Surveillance 

      Lazarus, Ross; Yih, Katherine Katherine; Platt, Richard (BioMed Central, 2006)
      Background: Many systems for routine public health surveillance rely on centralized collection of potentially identifiable, individual, identifiable personal health information (PHI) records. Although individual, identifiable ...
    • Distributed Health Data Networks 

      Brown, Jeffrey Stuart; Holmes, John H.; Shah, Kiran; Hall, Ken; Lazarus, Ross; Platt, Richard (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2010)
      Background: Comparative effectiveness research, medical product safety evaluation, and quality measurement will require the ability to use electronic health data held by multiple organizations. There is no consensus about ...
    • Effect of Nonpayment for Preventable Infections in U.S. Hospitals 

      Lee, Grace M.; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Soumerai, Stephen Bertram; Tse, Alison; Cole, David; Fridkin, Scott K.; Horan, Teresa; Platt, Richard; Gay, Charlene; Kassler, William; Goldmann, Donald Alan; Jernigan, John; Jha, Ashish Kumar (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2012)
      Background In October 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired conditions that were deemed preventable. The effect of this policy on rates ...
    • Enhanced Identification of Postoperative Infections among Inpatients 

      Noskin, Gary A.; Cunningham, Susan M.; Plaskett, Theresa; Fraser, Victoria J.; Olsen, Margaret A.; Tokars, Jerome I.; Solomon, Steven; Perl, Trish M.; Cosgrove, Sara E.; Tilson, Richard S.; Greenbaum, Maurice; Herwaldt, Loreen A.; Diekema, Daniel J.; Climo, Michael; Yokoe, Deborah Stephanie; Zuccotti, Gianna; Hooper, David Crittenden; Sands, Kenneth Eliot Frederick; Tully, John Lawrence; Wong, Edward S.; Platt, Richard (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004)
      We evaluated antimicrobial exposure, discharge diagnoses, or both to identify surgical site infections (SSI). This retrospective cohort study in 13 hospitals involved weighted, random samples of records from 8,739 coronary ...
    • Enhanced Identification of Postoperative Infections among Outpatients 

      Miner, Andrew L.; Sands, Kenneth Eliot Frederick; Yokoe, Deborah Stephanie; Freedman, John; Thompson, Kristin; Livingston, James Michael; Platt, Richard (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004)
      We investigated using administrative claims data to identify surgical site infections (SSI) after breast surgery and cesarean section. Postoperative diagnosis codes, procedure codes, and pharmacy information were automatically ...
    • Harnessing Electronic Health Records for Public Health Surveillance 

      Klompas, Michael; MURPHY, MICHAEL; Lankiewicz, Julie; McVetta, Jason; Lazarus, Ross; Eggleston, Emma; Daly, Patricia Ann; Oppedisano, Paul; Beagan, Brianne; Kirby, Chaim; Platt, Richard (University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 2011)
      Electronic medical record (EMR) systems are a rich potential source for detailed, timely, and efficient surveillance of large populations. We created the Electronic medical record Support for Public Health (ESP) system to ...
    • The Impact of Prescribing Safety Alerts for Elderly Persons in an Electronic Medical Record 

      Smith, David H.; Perrin, Nancy; Feldstein, Adrianne; Yang, Xiuhai; Kuang, Daniel; Simon, Steven R.; Sittig, Dean F.; Platt, Richard; Soumerai, Stephen Bertram (American Medical Association (AMA), 2006)
      Background Considerable effort and attention have focused on medication safety in elderly persons; one approach that has been understudied in the outpatient environment is the use of computerized provider order entry with ...
    • Improving documentation and coding for acute organ dysfunction biases estimates of changing sepsis severity and burden: a retrospective study 

      Rhee, Chanu; Murphy, Michael V.; Li, Lingling; Platt, Richard; Klompas, Michael (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Introduction: Claims-based analyses report that the incidence of sepsis-associated organ dysfunction is increasing. We examined whether coding practices for acute organ dysfunction are changing over time and if so, whether ...
    • Improving Public Reporting and Data Validation for Complex Surgical Site Infections After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Hip Arthroplasty 

      Calderwood, Michael S.; Kleinman, Ken; Murphy, Michael V.; Platt, Richard; Huang, Susan S. (Oxford University Press, 2014)
      Background: Deep and organ/space surgical site infections (D/OS SSI) cause significant morbidity, mortality, and costs. Rates are publicly reported and increasingly used as quality metrics affecting hospital payment. Lack ...
    • Intraoperative Redosing of Cefazolin and Risk for Surgical Site Infection in Cardiac Surgery 

      Zanetti, Giorgio; Giardina, Richard; Platt, Richard (Centers for Disease Control, 2001)
      Intraoperative redosing of prophylactic antibiotics is recommended for prolonged surgical procedures, although its efficacy has not been assessed. We retrospectively compared the risk of surgical site infections in 1,548 ...
    • Launching PCORnet, a national patient-centered clinical research network 

      Fleurence, Rachael L; Curtis, Lesley H; Califf, Robert M; Platt, Richard; Selby, Joe V; Brown, Jeffrey S (BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)
      The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has launched PCORnet, a major initiative to support an effective, sustainable national research infrastructure that will advance the use of electronic health data ...
    • Long-Term Care Facilities: Important Participants of the Acute Care Facility Social Network? 

      Lee, Bruce Y.; Song, Yeohan; Bartsch, Sarah M.; Kim, Diane S.; Singh, Ashima; Brown, Shawn T.; Wong, Kim F.; Potter, Margaret A.; Burke, Donald S.; Avery, Taliser R.; Yilmaz, S. Levent; Platt, Richard; Huang, Susan S. (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Background: Acute care facilities are connected via patient sharing, forming a network. However, patient sharing extends beyond this immediate network to include sharing with long-term care facilities. The extent of long-term ...
    • Pharmacy Data for Tuberculosis Surveillance and Assessment of Patient Management 

      Coon, Steven W.; Dokholyan, Rachel; Iannuzzi, Michael C.; Meredith, Sarah; Moore, Marisa; Phillips, Lynelle; Ray, Wayne; Schech, Stephanie; Shatin, Deborah; Yokoe, Deborah Stephanie; Jones, Timothy F.; Platt, Richard (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004)
      Underreporting tuberculosis (TB) cases can compromise surveillance. We evaluated the contribution of pharmacy data in three different managed-care settings and geographic areas. Persons with more than two anti-TB medications ...