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List of works by Makoto Jones

1209. Expanding an Economic Evaluation of the Veterans Affairs Initiative to Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections to Include Prevention of Gram-Negative Bacteria

1326Validation of the Antibiotic Spectrum Score Method to Measure Antibiotic De-escalation (AD) Utilizing Electronic Bar Code Medication Admininstration Data in Patients with Healthcare Associated Pneumonia (HCAP).

scientific article published in December 2014

1328Decreased Vancomycin Use after Implementation of a Decision Support Program for Antibiotic Time Outs.

scientific article published in December 2014

1524. Are Providers Shifting from NTF to Fosfomycin for Inpatient UTI? Big Data Reveals Small Shifts

1630Excess Length of Stay Attributable to Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in the Acute Care Setting: A Multi-State Model.

scientific article published in December 2014

1825. Electronic Measure of Unnecessary Antimicrobial Use in US Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

1864. Implementation of the National Healthcare Safety Network’s (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use Option in the US Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Facilities

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1875. How Many Different Antimicrobial Regimens Are There and Which Are Emerging and Declining?

208. Trends in Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections and Implementation of a Provider-Directed Intervention Within the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VA)

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2148. 100 Years of Sepsis: Using Topic Modeling to Understand Historical Themes Surrounding Sepsis

2161. Pilot Implementation of a Nationwide Automated Multidrug-Resistant Organism Tracking and Alert System in Veterans Affairs

236Taking an Antibiotic Timeout: Utilizing an Antibiotic Renewal Template for Automatic Approval of Vancomycin and Piperacillin-tazobactam.

scientific article published in December 2014

2516. Predictors of Zika Virus Disease Severity Within Veterans Affairs (VA)

scholarly article by Julia Lewis et al published November 2018 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases

296The impact of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections on post-discharge healthcare costs and utilization

scientific article published in December 2014

332Collateral Benefit of Screening Patients for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus at Hospital Admission: Serendipitous Isolation of Patients with Other Multidrug-Resistant Organisms.

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448. Can Electronic Clinical Notes Identify Travelers with Zika?

scholarly article by Kelly Peterson et al published November 2018 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases

449. Post-Hurricane Maria Surveillance for Infectious Diseases in the Veterans Affairs San Juan Medical Center, Puerto Rico

489. Validation of the SHEA/IDSA Severity Criteria to Predict Poor Outcomes Among Inpatients and Outpatients With Clostridium difficile Infection

A simulation-based assessment of strategies to control Clostridium difficile transmission and infection

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An Economic Analysis of Strategies to Control Clostridium Difficile Transmission and Infection Using an Agent-Based Simulation Model

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Antibiotic prescription practices for pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infections and urinary tract infections throughout the US Veterans Affairs system

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

Antimicrobial de-escalation of treatment for healthcare-associated pneumonia within the Veterans Healthcare Administration

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Automated Travel History Extraction From Clinical Notes for Informing the Detection of Emergent Infectious Disease Events: Algorithm Development and Validation

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use at Choice, Change, and Completion Throughout VA: Patterns of Initiation and De-escalation.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Causal Conditions Supporting Antibiotic Stewardship Information Dashboards

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Characteristics of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs at Veterans Affairs Hospitals: Results of a Nationwide Survey

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Collateral benefit of screening patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission: isolation of patients with multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Comparative Effectiveness of Cefazolin versus Nafcillin or Oxacillin for Treatment of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Infections Complicated by Bacteremia: A Nationwide Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Decolonization with Mupirocin and Subsequent Risk of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriage in Veterans Affairs Hospitals

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Description and validation of a spectrum score method to measure antimicrobial de-escalation in healthcare associated pneumonia from electronic medical records data

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Developing a manually annotated clinical document corpus to identify phenotypic information for inflammatory bowel disease

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Development of an antibiotic spectrum score based on veterans affairs culture and susceptibility data for the purpose of measuring antibiotic de-escalation: a modified Delphi approach

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Differences in Pre- and Post-dischcarge Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rates by colonization status in US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals.

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Does universal active MRSA surveillance influence anti-MRSA antibiotic use? A retrospective analysis of the treatment of patients admitted with suspicion of infection at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers between 2005 and 2010

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Double trouble: how big a problem is redundant anaerobic antibiotic coverage in Veterans Affairs medical centres?

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Drugs of last resort? The use of polymyxins and tigecycline at US Veterans Affairs medical centers, 2005-2010.

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Effects of Policy and Resources on Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in the VA: Applying a Transaction Cost Economics Framework.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Electronic Detection of MRSA Infections in a National VA Population Augments Current Manual Process.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration.

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Excess Length of Stay Attributable to Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in the Acute Care Setting: A Multistate Model

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Extended models for nosocomial infection: parameter estimation and model selection

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Extraction of Vital Signs from Clinical Notes

scientific article published on January 2015

Feasibility of Population Health Analytics and Data Visualization for Decision Support in the Infectious Diseases Domain: A pilot study

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Health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections increases the risk of postdischarge mortality

scientific article published on January 2015

How to Use Antimicrobial Use Data? A Model to Support Decision-Making and Facilitate Understanding.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus within the Nation’s Veterans Affairs Medical Centers using natural language processing

scientific article published on July 11, 2012

Identifying complexity in infectious diseases inpatient settings: An observation study

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

Impact of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization on Transfer to a Nursing Home.

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Importation, Antibiotics, and Clostridium difficile Infection in Veteran Long-Term Care: A Multilevel Case-Control Study

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Imported Disease Pressure and Bulk Antibiotic Use: Novel Predictors of Facility-Level C. Difficile Infection (CDI) Incidence in the United States Veterans Health Administration

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Initiation and termination of antibiotic regimens in Veterans Affairs hospitals

scientific article published on 6 October 2014

Long-term care facilities in Utah: A description of human and information technology resources applied to infection control practice

scientific article published on September 10, 2011

Outcomes Associated With Antimicrobial De-escalation of Treatment for Pneumonia Within the Veterans Healthcare Administration

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Parenteral to Oral Conversion of Fluoroquinolones: Low-Hanging Fruit for Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs?

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Protocol to disseminate a hospital-site controlled intervention using audit and feedback to implement guidelines concerning inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Reducing Time-dependent Bias in Estimates of the Attributable Cost of Health Care-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections: A Comparison of Three Estimation Strategies

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Relationships between the importation, transmission, and nosocomial infections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an observational study of 112 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

The Effect of a Nationwide Infection Control Program Expansion on Hospital-Onset Gram-Negative Rod Bacteremia in 130 Veterans Health Administration Medical Centers: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis.

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

The Experience of Stewards in Using a Visual Analytic Tool to Benchmark and Track Therapy Duration for Pneumonia, Urinary Tract Infections, and Skin and Soft-tissue infections.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

The drivers of acute and long-term care C. difficile infection rates: a retrospective multilevel cohort study of 251 facilities

scientific article published on 8 June 2017

The impact of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections on post-discharge healthcare costs and utilization

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Think twice: A cognitive perspective of an antibiotic timeout intervention to improve antibiotic use.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Tuberculosis in a solid-organ transplant recipient: modern-day implications

scientific article published on February 2009

Understanding complex clinical reasoning in infectious diseases for improving clinical decision support design

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Vital signs: improving antibiotic use among hospitalized patients

scientific article published in March 2014