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"Sitting on pins and needles": characterization of symptom descriptions in clinical notes".

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

1020. Variations in inpatient and outpatient antibiotic use – opportunities for improvement and facility-level feedback

1058. Decreases in Antibiotic Use Associated with the Implementation of Electronic Antibiotic Visualization Tools for Stewards at Eight Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare Facilities

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

1621US Costs and Outcomes Associated with Clostridium difficile Infections: a Systematic Literature Review, Meta-analysis, and Mathematical Model.

scientific article published in December 2014

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

1638Clostridium difficile Strains Colonizing Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) Residents are Similar to Strains Causing Infection in both LTCF and Hospital Patients Suggesting a Shared Continuum of Transmission.

scientific article published in December 2014

170. Characterization of Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Pediatric Respiratory Tract Infections: Setting the Stage for Stewardship

1728. Effectiveness and Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Perceptions of a Multi-Site Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Free Zone Intervention

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1839. Contact Precautions’ Effects on MRSA Transmission in Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals

article published in 2019

1888. Clinicians’ Beliefs, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Planned Behaviors on Antibiotic Prescribing in Acute Respiratory Infections

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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2090. Are Changes in Antimicrobial Use Associated with a Decline in Hospital Pathogen Rates in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers?

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

213. Multi-centered Evaluation of an Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Audit-Feedback Intervention: Impact on Antibiotic Prescribing Rates and Patient Outcomes

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

2218. Feasibility of Automated Prediction of Drug Resistance in Pneumonia in the Veteran Population

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

scientific article published in December 2014

2439. The role of positive externalities in economic evaluations of new antibiotics: modeling the impact of reduced transmission in healthcare facilities

255. Evaluation of Antibiotic Prescribing at University-Affiliated Dental Clinics

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

scientific article published in December 2014

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

497. Identification of Patients at Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection for Enrollment in Vaccine Clinical Trials

514. Shedding of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli by Colonized Patients during Procedures and Patient Care Activities

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

518. Modeling the Potential Impact of Administering Vaccines Against Clostridium difficile Infection to Individuals in Healthcare Facilities

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529Frequent Transmission of Clostridium Difficile by Asymptomatically Colonized Long-term Care Facility Residents during Hospital Admissions.

scientific article published in December 2014

732. Description of Diagnoses and Antibiotic Management of Otitis Media and Otitis Externa in Adults

873Using natural language processing on electronic medical notes to detect the presence of an indwelling urinary catheter.

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A Dynamic Transmission Model to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Infection Control Strategies

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A Piece of the Public Health Surveillance Puzzle: Social Contacts among School-Aged Children

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A Report of the Efforts of the Veterans Health Administration National Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

A Sustainable Strategy to Prevent Misuse of Antibiotics for Acute Respiratory Infections ⬇️

scientific article published on December 12, 2012

A case for using grid architecture for state public health informatics: the Utah perspective

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A multifaceted intervention to improve antimicrobial prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections in a small rural community

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A new approach to the analysis of antibiotic resistance data from hospitals

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A pilot study of a heuristic algorithm for novel template identification from VA electronic medical record text

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

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A simulation-based evaluation of methods to estimate the impact of an adverse event on hospital length of stay

scientific article published in October 2007

A systematic review of the epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the United States.

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Adaptation of the NegEx algorithm to Veterans Affairs electronic text notes for detection of influenza-like illness (ILI).

scientific article published on 11 October 2007

Agreement in Classifying Bloodstream Infections Among Multiple Reviewers Conducting Surveillance ⬇️

scientific article published on April 26, 2012

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

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An agent-based model for evaluating surveillance methods for catheter-related bloodstream infection

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Analysis of False Positive Errors of an Acute Respiratory Infection Text Classifier due to Contextual Features ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2010

Antecedent treatment with different antibiotic agents as a risk factor for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus

scientific article published on August 2002

Antibiotic Overuse: Clinicians Are the Solution

scientific article published on 09 May 2017

Antibiotic Prescribing Variability in a Large Urgent Care Network: A New Target for Outpatient Stewardship

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

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

scientific article published on May 16, 2013

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

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Antimicrobial resistance determinants and future control

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Antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance: a population perspective

scientific article published on April 2002

Application of Natural Language Processing to VA Electronic Health Records to Identify Phenotypic Characteristics for Clinical and Research Purposes ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2008

Applying ontological realism to medically unexplained syndromes

scientific article published on January 2013

Assessing the status of infection control programs in small rural hospitals in the western United States.

scientific article published on August 2004

Association of Inpatient Antimicrobial Utilization Measures with Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities and Facility Characteristics of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

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Association of intrapartum antibiotic exposure and late-onset serious bacterial infections in infants

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Attributable Cost and Length of Stay Associated with Nosocomial Gram-Negative Bacterial Cultures

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Attributable Mortality of Healthcare-Associated Infections Due to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

scientific article published on June 2017

Authors' Response to "Veterans and the National Tragedy of Suicide".

scientific article published in October 2017

Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure

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Automatic de-identification of textual documents in the electronic health record: a review of recent research

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Big-Data Based Decision-Support Systems to Improve Clinicians' Cognition

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

BoB, a best-of-breed automated text de-identification system for VHA clinical documents ⬇️

scientific article published on September 4, 2012

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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Characteristics of the Highest Users of Emergency Services in Veterans Affairs Hospitals: Homeless and Non-Homeless

scientific article published on January 2017

Clarifying adverse drug events: a clinician's guide to terminology, documentation, and reporting

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Clinical and economic outcomes of conventional amphotericin B-associated nephrotoxicity

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Clinical decision support and appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing: a randomized trial

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Clostridium: Transmission difficile? ⬇️

scientific article published on February 7, 2012

Combining Natural Language Processing of Electronic Medical Notes With Administrative Data to Determine Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Disclosure and Documentation of Military Sexual Trauma in Veterans

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Combining free text and structured electronic medical record entries to detect acute respiratory infections

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Comparative Effectiveness of Vancomycin and Metronidazole for the Prevention of Recurrence and Death in Patients With Clostridium difficile Infection

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Comparison of Grouping Methods for Template Extraction from VA Medical Record Text

scientific article published in January 2017

Comparison of the Denka Seiken slide agglutination method to the quellung test for serogrouping of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates

scientific article published on March 2004

Computerized Text Analysis to Enhance Automated Pneumonia Detection

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Contact Precautions to Prevent Pathogen Transmission-Reply

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Control-group selection importance in studies of antimicrobial resistance: examples applied to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococci, and Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 23 May 2002

Correction: Combining Free Text and Structured Electronic Medical Record Entries to Detect Acute Respiratory Infections.

scientific article published on 11 January 2011

Cost of opioid-related adverse drug events in surgical patients

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Costs and Mortality Associated With Multidrug-Resistant Healthcare-Associated Acinetobacter Infections

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Decreases in antimicrobial use associated with multihospital implementation of electronic antimicrobial stewardship tools

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

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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Design and methodology of the Strategies to Reduce Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Intensive Care Units (STAR-ICU) trial

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Detecting earlier indicators of homelessness in the free text of medical records

scientific article published in January 2014

Detection and prevention of medication errors using real-time bedside nurse charting

scientific article published on 31 March 2005

Detection of antimicrobial resistance by small rural hospital microbiology laboratories: comparison of survey responses with current NCCLS laboratory standards

scientific article published in September 2003

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

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

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Developing indicators of inpatient adverse drug events through nonlinear analysis using administrative data

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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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Development of an electronic public health case report using HL7 v2.5 to meet public health needs

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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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Dissemination and Sustainability of a Hospital-Wide Hand Hygiene Program Emphasizing Positive Reinforcement ⬇️

scientific article published on December 3, 2010

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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Economic Analysis of Veterans Affairs Initiative to Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections

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Effectiveness of a multisite personal protective equipment (PPE)-free zone intervention in acute care

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

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

Effects of body size and body composition on survival in hemodialysis patients

scientific article published in September 2003

Efficacy of a computerized simulation in promoting walking in individuals with diabetes

scientific article published on 10 May 2012

Efficient parameter estimation for models of healthcare-associated pathogen transmission in discrete and continuous time

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

Empirical Anti-MRSA vs Standard Antibiotic Therapy and Risk of 30-Day Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Environmental Contamination with Candida Species in Multiple Hospitals Including a Tertiary Care Hospital with a Candida auris Outbreak

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

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

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Epidemiology, disposition and treatment of ambulatory Veterans with skin and soft tissue infections

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Epinome - a novel workbench for epidemic investigation and analysis of search strategies in public health practice

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Estimates of Outbreak Risk from New Introductions of Ebola with Immediate and Delayed Transmission Control

scientific article published in August 2015

Estimates of Social Contact in a Middle School Based on Self-Report and Wireless Sensor Data

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Evaluating current automatic de-identification methods with Veteran’s health administration clinical documents ⬇️

scientific article published on July 27, 2012

Evaluation of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy at a Veterans Affairs Hospital

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Evaluation of a Redesigned Personal Protective Equipment Gown

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Evaluation of antibiotic use in a hospital with an antibiotic restriction policy

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Evaluation of clinicians' knowledge, attitudes, and planned behaviors related to an intervention to improve acute respiratory infection management

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

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

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Executive Summary: Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

scientific article published on May 2016

Experience with a clinical decision support system in community pharmacies to recommend narrow-spectrum antimicrobials, nonantimicrobial prescriptions, and OTC products to decrease broad-spectrum antimicrobial use

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Exploiting the UMLS Metathesaurus for extracting and categorizing concepts representing signs and symptoms to anatomically related organ systems

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Exploring patterns in resource utilization prior to the formal identification of homelessness in recently returned veterans

scientific article published on January 2014

Extended models for nosocomial infection: parameter estimation and model selection

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Extracting Concepts Related to Homelessness from the Free Text of VA Electronic Medical Records

scientific article published on 14 November 2014

Extracting Sexual Trauma Mentions from Electronic Medical Notes Using Natural Language Processing

scientific article published in January 2017

Extracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities

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

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Finding 'Evidence of Absence' in Medical Notes: Using NLP for Clinical Inferencing

scientific article published on January 2016

Frequent and unexpected deviations from personal protective equipment guidelines increase contamination risks

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

General Symptom Extraction from VA Electronic Medical Notes

scientific article published in January 2017

Generalizability and comparison of automatic clinical text de-identification methods and resources ⬇️

scientific article published on November 3, 2012

Genotypic and phenotypic analysis of Clostridium difficile correlated with previous antibiotic exposure

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Geographic diversity and temporal trends of antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States.

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Hazard ratio in clinical trials

scientific article published in August 2004

Health and economic outcomes of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

scientific article published on October 2002

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

scientific article published on January 2015

Hospital electronic medical record-based public health surveillance system deployed during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games

scientific article published in April 2007

How much does automatic text de-identification impact clinical problems, tests, and treatments?

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

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

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Identification and Characterization of Failures in Infectious Agent Transmission Precaution Practices in Hospitals: A Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Identification of antimicrobial peptide regions derived from genomic sequences of phage lysins

scientific article published on 13 September 2005

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

Identification of patients at risk of Clostridioides difficile infection for enrollment in vaccine clinical trials

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Identifying Homelessness among Veterans Using VA Administrative Data: Opportunities to Expand Detection Criteria

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Identifying complexity in infectious diseases inpatient settings: An observation study

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

Impact of Implementation of the Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship within Veterans Health Administration Emergency Department and Primary Care Clinics on Antibiotic Prescribing and Patient Outcomes

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

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

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Impact of outpatient antibiotic use on carriage of ampicillin-resistant Escherichia coli

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Impact of severity of illness bias and control group misclassification bias in case-control studies of antimicrobial-resistant organisms.

scientific article published in April 2005

Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

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

Improved hidden Markov model for nosocomial infections

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

In Data We Trust? Comparison of Electronic Versus Manual Abstraction of Antimicrobial Prescribing Quality Metrics for Hospitalized Veterans With Pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

In response to letter to the editor: ‘Concerning SNOMED-CT content for public health case reports’.

scientific article published in September 2010

Incidence and Outcomes Associated With Clostridium difficile Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Incidence and Outcomes Associated With Infections Caused by Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in the United States: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

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Incidence of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Infections in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review

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Inductive creation of an annotation schema and a reference standard for de-identification of VA electronic clinical notes

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Infection control interventions in small rural hospitals with limited resources: results of a cluster-randomized feasibility trial

scientific article published on 28 March 2014

Influenza, Winter Olympiad, 2002.

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Initiation and termination of antibiotic regimens in Veterans Affairs hospitals

scientific article published on 6 October 2014

Integrating Time-Varying and Ecological Exposures into Multivariate Analyses of Hospital-Acquired Infection Risk Factors: A Review and Demonstration

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Interactive agent based modeling of public health decision-making

scientific article published on 14 November 2009

Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel — 33 U.S. Sites, January–March 2021

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Interruptions and Delivery of Care in the Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Intervention to Reduce Transmission of Resistant Bacteria in Intensive Care ⬇️

scientific article published on April 14, 2011

Interventional study to evaluate the impact of an alcohol-based hand gel in improving hand hygiene compliance

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Likelihood of Environmental Contamination of Patient Rooms in Six Acute Care Facilities based on Facility, Unit-Type, and Precautions Status.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

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

Lower Methicillin-Resistant (MRSA) Acquisition and Nosocomial Cultures While on Anti-MRSA Antibiotics?

Maximizing clinical cohort size using free text queries.

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Mechanisms by which antibiotics promote dissemination of resistant pneumococci in human populations

scientific article published on 30 November 2005

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and Pre- and Post-hospital Discharge Infection Risk

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in rural communities, western United States

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Methodological framework to identify possible adverse drug reactions using population-based administrative data

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Military Misconduct and Homelessness Among US Veterans Separated From Active Duty, 2001-2012.

scientific article published on August 2015

Model-based Assessment of the Effect of Contact Precautions Applied to Surveillance-detected Carriers of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Long-term Acute Care Hospitals

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Modeling the mind: How do we design effective decision-support?

scientific article published on 08 June 2017

Modeling the potential impact of administering vaccines against Clostridioides difficile infection to individuals in healthcare facilities

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Modeling the variations in pediatric respiratory syncytial virus seasonal epidemics

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Multicenter Evaluation of a Novel Surveillance Paradigm for Complications of Mechanical Ventilation ⬇️

scientific article published on March 22, 2011

Non-routine Discharge From Military Service: Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorders, and Suicidality

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

Nora: A Vocabulary Discovery Tool for Concept Extraction.

scientific article published on January 2015

Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published in December 2012

Opioid-related adverse drug events in surgical hospitalizations: impact on costs and length of stay

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Optimizing A syndromic surveillance text classifier for influenza-like illness: Does document source matter?

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Out-of-pocket pharmacy expenditures for veterans under medicare part D.

scientific article published on October 2007

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

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Outpatient antibiotic use in the United States: time to "get smarter"

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

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

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Patient-aligned Care Team Engagement to Connect Veterans Experiencing Homelessness With Appropriate Health Care

scientific article published in September 2017

Perspectives of Physician and Pharmacist Stewards on Successful Antibiotic Stewardship Program Implementation: A Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Pharmacist involvement in antimicrobial use at rural community hospitals in four Western states

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

PlateRunner: A Search Engine to Identify EMR Boilerplates

scientific article published on January 2016

Portable Automated Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections Using Natural Language Processing: Development and Validation

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Potential Impact of Hospital-acquired Pneumonia Guidelines on Empiric Antibiotics. An Evaluation of 113 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Psychometric assessment of the patient activation measure short form (PAM-13) in rural settings ⬇️

scientific article published on March 31, 2012

Public health communication with frontline clinicians during the first wave of the 2009 influenza pandemic

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Quality of life of children with neurological impairment who receive a fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease

scientific article published in May 2007

Quantitative models of the dose-response and time course of inhalational anthrax in humans

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Rapid and Reproducible Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Rapid identification of hospitalized patients at high risk for MRSA carriage

scientific article published on 24 April 2008

Recognizing Questions and Answers in EMR Templates Using Natural Language Processing

scientific article published on January 2014

Recurrent catheter-related bloodstream infections: Risk factors and outcome

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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

Regional Variability of Repeat Esophagogastroduodenoscopy Use in the National Veteran Population

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Reinforcement of an infection control bundle targeting prevention practices for Clostridioides difficile in Veterans Health Administration nursing homes

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

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

Research Agenda for Microbiome Based Research for Multidrug-resistant Organism Prevention in the Veterans Health Administration System

scientific article published in February 2018

Risk factors for adverse drug events: a 10-year analysis

scientific article published on 16 May 2005

SaTScan on a Cloud: On-Demand Large Scale Spatial Analysis of Epidemics

scientific article published on 9 April 2010

Scaling Out and Evaluation of OBSecAn, an Automated Section Annotator for Semi-Structured Clinical Documents, on a Large VA Clinical Corpus

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Shedding of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by Hospitalized Patients during Procedures

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Shedding of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by colonized patients during procedures and patient care activities

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Shedding of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli by colonized patients during procedures and patient care activities

scientific article published on 06 June 2020

Shortage of penicillin G: impact on antibiotic prescribing at a US tertiary care centre

scientific article published in May 2003

Social network analyses of patient-healthcare worker interactions: implications for disease transmission.

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Sophia: A Expedient UMLS Concept Extraction Annotator

scientific article published on 14 November 2014

Specifying an implementation framework for Veterans Affairs antimicrobial stewardship programmes: using a factor analysis approach

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

State-level adoption of national guidelines for norovirus outbreaks in health care settings

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Strengthening Partnerships along the Informatics Innovation Stages and Spaces: Research and Practice Collaboration in Utah

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Surveillance of medical device-related hazards and adverse events in hospitalized patients

scientific article published in January 2004

System-wide surveillance for clinical encounters by patients previously identified with MRSA and VRE.

scientific article published in January 2004

Taking an Antibiotic Time-out: Utilization and Usability of a Self-Stewardship Time-out Program for Renewal of Vancomycin and Piperacillin-Tazobactam

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Taming Big Data: An Information Extraction Strategy for Large Clinical Text Corpora

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Text de-identification for privacy protection: a study of its impact on clinical text information content

scientific article published on 3 February 2014

The EpiCanvas infectious disease weather map: an interactive visual exploration of temporal and spatial correlations ⬇️

scientific article published on February 22, 2012

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 Impact of Healthcare-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections on Postdischarge Health Care Costs and Utilization across Multiple Health Care Systems

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The Importance of Contact Precautions for Endemic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

The Magnitude of Time-Dependent Bias in the Estimation of Excess Length of Stay Attributable to Healthcare-Associated Infections

scientific article published on 04 June 2015

The Suspected Infected Prosthetic Joint: Clinical Acumen and Added Value of Laboratory Investigations

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

The case-case-control study design: addressing the limitations of risk factor studies for antimicrobial resistance

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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

The importance of good data, analysis, and interpretation for showing the economics of reducing healthcare-associated infection

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The medical management of central nervous system infections in Uganda and the potential impact of an algorithm-based approach to improve outcomes

scientific article published on 18 May 2007

The potential for interventions in a long-term acute care hospital to reduce transmission of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in affiliated healthcare facilities

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

The role of heterogeneity in contact timing and duration in network models of influenza spread in schools

scientific article published in July 2015

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

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Transmission dynamics and control of severe acute respiratory syndrome

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Transmission of Clostridium difficile from asymptomatically colonized or infected long-term care facility residents

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Trends in Antibiotic Use and Nosocomial Pathogens in Hospitalized Veterans With Pneumonia at 128 Medical Centers, 2006-2010.

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Understanding Workflow and Personal Protective Equipment Challenges Across Different Healthcare Personnel Roles

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Understanding adoption of a personal health record in rural health care clinics: revealing barriers and facilitators of adoption including attributions about potential patient portal users and self-reported characteristics of early adopting users

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

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Understanding keys to successful implementation of electronic decision support in rural hospitals: analysis of a pilot study for antimicrobial prescribing

scientific article published on November 2005

Use of a personal digital assistant for managing antibiotic prescribing for outpatient respiratory tract infections in rural communities

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Use of oral vancomycin for Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) and the risk of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE)

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Use of strain typing data to estimate bacterial transmission rates in healthcare settings.

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Using Structured and Unstructured Data to Refine Estimates of Military Sexual Trauma Status Among US Military Veterans

scientific article published in January 2017

Using natural language processing on the free text of clinical documents to screen for evidence of homelessness among US veterans

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Using the Electronic Medical Record to Identify Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Toward a Replicable Automated Strategy ⬇️

scientific article published on August 13, 2013

Utility of a commercial PCR assay and a clinical prediction rule for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile in asymptomatic carriers

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Validating a strategy for psychosocial phenotyping using a large corpus of clinical text

scientific article published on 29 October 2013

Validation of the SHEA/IDSA severity criteria to predict poor outcomes among inpatients and outpatients with Clostridioides difficile infection

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Validity of electronic medical record-based rules for the early detection of meningitis and encephalitis

scientific article published on 11 October 2007

Variation and trends in transmission dynamics of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in veterans affairs hospitals and nursing homes

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Variation in Empiric Coverage Versus Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Hospitalizations for Community-Onset Pneumonia Across 128 US Veterans Affairs Medical Centers.

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Variation in Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections in the Veteran Population: A Cross-sectional Study

scientific article published on July 2015

Variety of beta-lactamases produced by amoxicillin-clavulanate-resistant Escherichia coli isolated in the northeastern United States

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Vital Signs: Estimated Effects of a Coordinated Approach for Action to Reduce Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Health Care Facilities - United States

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