Browsing by Author "Platt, Richard"

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    • Prospective influenza vaccine safety surveillance using fresh data in the Sentinel System† 

      Yih, Weiling Katherine; Kulldorff, Martin; Sandhu, Sukhminder K.; Zichittella, Lauren; Maro, Judith C.; Cole, David V.; Jin, Robert; Kawai, Alison Tse; Baker, Meghan A.; Liu, Chunfu; McMahill‐Walraven, Cheryl N.; Selvan, Mano S.; Platt, Richard; Nguyen, Michael D.; Lee, Grace M. (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2015)
      Abstract Purpose To develop the infrastructure to conduct timely active surveillance for safety of influenza vaccines and other medical countermeasures in the Sentinel System (formerly the Mini‐Sentinel Pilot), a Food and ...

    • A Randomized Trial of Direct-to-Patient Communication to Enhance Adherence to β-Blocker Therapy Following Myocardial Infarction 

      Smith, David H.; Kramer, Judith M.; Perrin, Nancy; Platt, Richard; Roblin, Douglas W.; Lane, Kimberly; Goodman, Michael Lee; Nelson, Winnie W.; Yang, Xuihai; Soumerai, Stephen Bertram (American Medical Association (AMA), 2008)
      Background Although β-blockers are routinely prescribed at hospital discharge after myocardial infarction (MI), patients' adherence has been shown to decline substantially over time. We sought to test the hypothesis that ...

    • Reducing Warfarin Medication Interactions 

      Feldstein, Adrianne C.; Smith, David H.; Perrin, Nancy; Yang, Xiuhai; Simon, Steven R.; Krall, Michael; Sittig, Dean F.; Ditmer, Diane; Platt, Richard; Soumerai, Stephen Bertram (American Medical Association (AMA), 2006)
      Background Computerized decision support reduces medication errors in inpatients, but limited evidence supports its effectiveness in reducing the coprescribing of interacting medications, especially in the outpatient ...

    • Severe Sepsis: Variation in Resource and Therapeutic Modality use Among Academic Centers 

      Black, Edgar; Graman, Paul S; Lanken, Paul N; Kahn, Katherine L; Snydman, David R; Parsonnet, Jeffrey; Moore, Richard; Yu, Donghui Tony; Sands, Kenneth Eliot Frederick; Schwartz, J. Sanford; Hibberd, Patricia Lavonne; Platt, Richard; Bates, David Westfall (BioMed Central, 2003)
      Background: Treatment of severe sepsis is expensive, often encompassing a number of discretionary modalities. The objective of the present study was to assess intercenter variation in resource and therapeutic modality use ...

    • Simulated Anthrax Attacks and Syndromic Surveillance 

      Nordin, James D.; Goodman, Michael J.; Kulldorff, Martin; Ritzwoller, Debra P.; Abrams, Allyson M.; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Levitt, Mary Jeanne; Donahue, James; Platt, Richard (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005)
      We measured sensitivity and timeliness of a syndromic surveillance system to detect bioterrorism events. A hypothetical anthrax release was modeled by using zip code population data, mall customer surveys, and membership ...

    • Surgical Site Infections: Volume-Outcome Relationship and Year-to-Year Stability of Performance Rankings 

      Calderwood, Michael S.; Kleinman, Ken; Huang, Susan S.; Murphy, Michael V.; Yokoe, Deborah S.; Platt, Richard (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017)
      Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) rates are publicly reported as quality metrics and increasingly used to determine financial reimbursement. Objective: To evaluate the volume-outcome relationship as well as the ...

    • Telephone Triage Service Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness 

      Yih, Katherine Katherine; Teates, Kathryn S.; Abrams, Allyson; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Kulldorff, Martin; Pinner, Robert; Harmon, Robert; Wang, Stanley; Platt, Richard (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      Background: Surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is important for guiding public health prevention programs to mitigate the morbidity and mortality caused by influenza, including pandemic influenza. ...

    • Use of Automated Ambulatory-Care Encounter Records for Detection of Acute Illness Clusters, Including Potential Bioterrorism Events 

      Lazarus, Ross; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Dashevsky, Inna; Adams, Courtney; Kludt, Patricia; DeMaria, Alfred; Platt, Richard (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002)
      The advent of domestic bioterrorism has emphasized the need for enhanced detection of clusters of acute illness. We describe a monitoring system operational in eastern Massachusetts, based on diagnoses obtained from ...

    • Using Automated Health Plan Data to Assess Infection Risk from Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery 

      Thompson, Kristin; Dokholyan, Rachel S.; Horan, Teresa C.; Gaynes, Robert P.; Solomon, Steven L.; Platt, Richard; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Livingston, James Michael; Bergman, Andrew L.; Mason, John H.; Sands, Kenneth Eliot Frederick (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002)
      We determined if infection indicators were sufficiently consistent across health plans to allow comparison of hospitals’ risks of infection after coronary artery bypass surgery. Three managed care organizations accounted ...

    • Using Automated Medical Records for Rapid Identification of Illness Syndromes (Syndromic Surveillance): The Example of Lower Respiratory Infection 

      Lazarus, Ross; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Dashevsky, Inna; DeMaria, Alfred; Platt, Richard (BioMed Central, 2001)
      Background: Gaps in disease surveillance capacity, particularly for emerging infections and bioterrorist attack, highlight a need for efficient, real time identification of diseases. Methods: We studied automated records ...