List of works by Richard Platt

1236The Preventability of Ventilator-Associated Events: The CDC Prevention Epicenters' Wake Up and Breathe Collaborative.

scientific article published in December 2014

1288Rapid Dissemination of Universal Decolonization in Adult Intensive Care Units (ICUs) Reduces Healthcare-Associated (HA) Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) in over 100 Community Hospitals in a Single Healthcare System. ⬇️

scientific article

915Is a hospital's surgical site infection rate among Medicare-insured patients a good indicator of outcome for commercially-insured patients?

scientific article published in December 2014

A Maximized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Drug and Vaccine Safety Surveillance

scientific article (publication date: 21 January 2011)

A cohort study of the incidence of serious acute liver injury in diabetic patients treated with hypoglycemic agents

scientific article published in March 2003

A distributed research network model for post-marketing safety studies: the Meningococcal Vaccine Study.

scientific article published on December 2008

A generalized linear mixed models approach for detecting incident clusters of disease in small areas, with an application to biological terrorism.

scientific article

A randomized trial of direct-to-patient communication to enhance adherence to beta-blocker therapy following myocardial infarction

scientific article published on March 2008

Academic detailing to improve laboratory testing among outpatient medication users

scientific article published in October 2007

Active drug safety surveillance: a tool to improve public health.

scientific article published in December 2008

Active influenza vaccine safety surveillance: potential within a healthcare claims environment.

scientific article

Active surveillance for adverse events: the experience of the Vaccine Safety Datalink project

scientific article published on 18 April 2011

Active surveillance of vaccine safety: a system to detect early signs of adverse events

scientific article published on May 2005

Administrative data used to identify patients with irritable bowel syndrome

scientific article

Administrative databases provide inaccurate data for surveillance of long-term central venous catheter-associated infections

scientific article

Advanced Clinical Decision Support for Vaccine Adverse Event Detection and Reporting

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Adverse events associated with prolonged antibiotic use

scientific article

Algorithms for identification of Guillain-Barré Syndrome among adolescents in claims databases

scientific article published on 6 March 2013

Antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era: predictors of carriage in a multicommunity sample

scientific article published in October 2003

Antidepressant medication use and risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn

scientific article published in March 2009

Antivirals and antibiotics for influenza in the United States, 1995--2002

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Applied Research and Development in Health Care - Time for a Frameshift

scientific article published in February 2017

Association of Open Approach vs Laparoscopic Approach With Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Colon Surgery

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Asthma drug use and the development of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS).

scientific article published in June 2007

Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination

scientific article

Automated detection and classification of type 1 versus type 2 diabetes using electronic health record data

scientific article

Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks in hospitals: a retrospective cohort study.

scientific article

Automated identification of acute hepatitis B using electronic medical record data to facilitate public health surveillance

scientific article

Automated influenza-like illness reporting--an efficient adjunct to traditional sentinel surveillance.

scientific article published on January 2014

Automated outbreak detection of hospital-associated pathogens: Value to infection prevention programs

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

B3-3: PCORI’s National Clinical Research Network

scientific article

Beyond 30 days: does limiting the duration of surgical site infection follow-up limit detection?

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

Big data in epidemiology: too big to fail?

scientific article published in November 2013

Bystander Ethics and Good Samaritanism: A Paradox for Learning Health Organizations

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

C-A4-03: Risks to the Newborn Associated With In-Utero Exposure to Beta-Blockers and Calcium-Channel Blockers.

scientific article published in March 2010

C-B5-02: H1N1 Vaccine Safety Monitoring in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project: New Challenges and Useful Lessons.

scientific article

C-C5-04: Can Claims Data Accurately Identify Graft Type and Infections Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repairs?

scientific article published in November 2011

C-D3-01: Developing and Implementation of Secure Linear Regression on Distributed Databases

scholarly article by Fang Zhang et al published 1 March 2010 in Clinical Medicine and Research

C-D3-02: Syndromic Surveillance Reporting Via CDCs Public Health Information Grid

scientific article published in March 2010

C-D3-04: Governing Access to a Distributed Research Network’s Data Resources.

scientific article published in March 2010

Cancer Screening Results and Follow-up Using Routinely Collected Electronic Health Data: Estimates for Breast, Colon, and Cervical Cancer Screenings

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Chlorhexidine and Mupirocin Susceptibility of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates in the REDUCE-MRSA Trial.

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Chlorhexidine versus routine bathing to prevent multidrug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infections in general medical and surgical units (ABATE Infection trial): a cluster-randomised trial

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Chronic disease score as a predictor of hospitalization

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Closing the Translation Gap: Toolkit-based Implementation of Universal Decolonization in Adult Intensive Care Units Reduces Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections in 95 Community Hospitals

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Cluster randomized trials in comparative effectiveness research: randomizing hospitals to test methods for prevention of healthcare-associated infections.

scientific article published on June 2010

Cluster randomized trials to study the comparative effectiveness of therapeutics: stakeholders' concerns and recommendations

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Cluster randomized trials: opportunities and barriers identified by leaders of eight health plans

scientific article published on October 2007

Collaborations in population-based health research: the 17th annual HMO Research Network Conference, March 23-25, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

scientific article published on November 2011

Colonization with antibiotic-susceptible strains protects against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition: a nested case-control study

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Community-level predictors of pneumococcal carriage and resistance in young children.

scientific article

Comparative effectiveness of beta-adrenergic antagonists (atenolol, metoprolol tartrate, carvedilol) on the risk of rehospitalization in adults with heart failure

scientific article published on 26 June 2007

Comparative effectiveness of different beta-adrenergic antagonists on mortality among adults with heart failure in clinical practice

scientific article published in December 2008

Comparing drug effectiveness at health plans: the ethics of cluster randomized trials.

scientific article published in September 2008

Comparison of trends in sepsis incidence and coding using administrative claims versus objective clinical data

scientific article

Computerized prescribing alerts and group academic detailing to reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications in older people

scientific article published on June 2006

Confounding by indication affects antimicrobial risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition

scientific article

Considerations for using distributed research networks to conduct aspects of randomized trials

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Cost savings of universal decolonization to prevent intensive care unit infection: implications of the REDUCE MRSA trial

scientific article published on October 2014

Cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in an intensive care unit

scientific article

Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing in General Hospital Units – Results of the ABATE Infection Trial (Active BAThing to Eliminate Infection).

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Data Enclaves for Sharing Information Derived From Clinical and Administrative Data

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Data Model for Initiatives to Monitor Exposure to Antimicrobials (DataMIME).

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Data Sharing and Embedded Research

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Decolonization to Reduce Postdischarge Infection Risk among MRSA Carriers

Design of a national distributed health data network

scientific article

Detection of postoperative surgical-site infections: comparison of health plan-based surveillance with hospital-based programs

scientific article published on October 2003

Developing algorithms for healthcare insurers to systematically monitor surgical site infection rates

scientific article

Developing the Sentinel System--a national resource for evidence development

scientific article published on 12 January 2011

Development of an algorithm for surveillance of ventilator-associated pneumonia with electronic data and comparison of algorithm results with clinician diagnoses .

scientific article

Diagnosed prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Medicare Advantage plans

scientific article published on 05 July 2020

Distributed data processing for public health surveillance.

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Distributed health data networks: a practical and preferred approach to multi-institutional evaluations of comparative effectiveness, safety, and quality of care

scientific article

Does chlorhexidine bathing in adult intensive care units reduce blood culture contamination? A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial.

scientific article published on October 2014

Drug safety data mining with a tree-based scan statistic

scientific article

Early adverse drug event signal detection within population-based health networks using sequential methods: key methodologic considerations

scientific article published on March 2009

Early detection of adverse drug events within population-based health networks: application of sequential testing methods.

scientific article published on December 2007

Effect of body surface decolonisation on bacteriuria and candiduria in intensive care units: an analysis of a cluster-randomised trial

scientific article

Effect of increased cost-sharing on oral hypoglycemic use in five managed care organizations: how much is too much?

scientific article published on October 2005

Effect of nonpayment for preventable infections in U.S. hospitals.

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Electronic Support for Public Health: validated case finding and reporting for notifiable diseases using electronic medical data

scientific article

Embedding cardiovascular research into practice

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Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatients

scientific article published in November 2004

Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients

scientific article published in November 2004

Environmental cleaning intervention and risk of acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms from prior room occupants

scientific article published in March 2011

Epidemiology of neonatal infections: experience during and after hospitalization.

scientific article published in March 2003

Estimation of the period prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease among nine health plans using computerized diagnoses and outpatient pharmacy dispensings

scientific article published on April 2007

Evaluating real-time syndromic surveillance signals from ambulatory care data in four states

scientific article

Evaluating spatial surveillance: detection of known outbreaks in real data

scientific article

Evidence from Pragmatic Trials during Routine Care - Slouching toward a Learning Health System

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

FDA drug prescribing warnings: is the black box half empty or half full?

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

FDA-Catalyst-Using FDA's Sentinel Initiative for large-scale pragmatic randomized trials: Approach and lessons learned during the planning phase of the first trial

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

Four health data networks illustrate the potential for a shared national multipurpose big-data network

scientific article

Frequency of high-risk use of QT-prolonging medications

scientific article published in June 2006

Frequency of serum creatinine monitoring during allopurinol therapy in ambulatory patients

scientific article published on 14 February 2006

Gastric and duodenal safety of daily alendronate

scientific article

Gastrointestinal disease outbreak detection using multiple data streams from electronic medical records

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Harnessing electronic health records for public health surveillance

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Health and economic impact of surgical site infections diagnosed after hospital discharge.

scientific article

Health plan administrative databases can efficiently identify serious myopathy and rhabdomyolysis

scientific article

How pharmacoepidemiology networks can manage distributed analyses to improve replicability and transparency and minimize bias

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Identification of patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) using automated data

scientific article

Impact of Medicare's payment policy on mediastinitis following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in US hospitals.

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

Impact of a 16-community trial to promote judicious antibiotic use in Massachusetts

scientific article

Impact of an environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in intensive care unit rooms

scientific article published on July 2008

Impact of routine intensive care unit surveillance cultures and resultant barrier precautions on hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

scientific article published on 14 September 2006

Improving Documentation and Coding for Acute Organ Dysfunction Biases Severe Sepsis Surveillance Over Time

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Improving documentation and coding for acute organ dysfunction biases estimates of changing sepsis severity and burden: a retrospective study

scientific article

Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care units

scientific article published on 27 December 2006

Improving public reporting and data validation for complex surgical site infections after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and hip arthroplasty.

scientific article

Improving the Assessment of Vancomycin‐Resistant Enterococci by Routine Screening

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Incidence of Churg-Strauss syndrome in asthma drug users: a population-based perspective

scientific article published on June 2005

Incidence of hospitalized rhabdomyolysis in patients treated with lipid-lowering drugs

scientific article

Incidence of outpatient visits and hospitalizations related to influenza in infants and young children.

scientific article published in March 2004

Incidence of statin use in older adults with and without cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus, January 2008- March 2018

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Infection prevention practices in adult intensive care units in a large community hospital system after implementing strategies to reduce health care-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections

scientific article

Integrating clinical practice and public health surveillance using electronic medical record systems

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Integrating clinical practice and public health surveillance using electronic medical record systems.

scientific article published in June 2012

Intrapartum antibiotics and neonatal invasive infections caused by organisms other than group B streptococcus

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Intussusception risk after rotavirus vaccination in U.S. infants

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Is size the next big thing in epidemiology?

scientific article published in May 2013

Laboratory Evaluation of Potassium and Creatinine Among Ambulatory Patients Prescribed Spironolactone: Are We Monitoring for Hyperkalemia?

scientific article published on 06 February 2007

Laboratory monitoring of drugs at initiation of therapy in ambulatory care

scientific article

Laboratory monitoring of potassium and creatinine in ambulatory patients receiving angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers

scientific article published in January 2007

Lack of Comprehensive Outbreak Detection in Hospitals

scientific article

Lactate Testing in Suspected Sepsis: Trends and Predictors of Failure to Measure Levels

scientific article published in August 2015

Launching PCORnet, a national patient-centered clinical research network

scientific article

Leveraging the Capabilities of the FDA's Sentinel System To Improve Kidney Care

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Liver and thyroid monitoring in ambulatory patients prescribed amiodarone in 10 HMOs

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Liver function testing in patients on HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Long-term care facilities: important participants of the acute care facility social network?

scientific article

Low Frequency of Treatment of Osteoporosis Among Postmenopausal Women Following a Fracture ⬇️

scientific article published on September 22, 2003

MDPHnet: secure, distributed sharing of electronic health record data for public health surveillance, evaluation, and planning

article

Maternal antibody at delivery protects neonates from early onset group B streptococcal disease

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Medicare claims can be used to identify US hospitals with higher rates of surgical site infection following vascular surgery.

scientific article published on October 2014

Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and hospitalization in high-risk patients in the year following detection

scientific article

Modeling the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks throughout the hospitals in Orange County, California

scientific article

Monitoring of drugs with a narrow therapeutic range in ambulatory care

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation

scientific article

Multivariate scan statistics for disease surveillance

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Objective Sepsis Surveillance Using Electronic Clinical Data

scientific article

Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published in December 2012

Outpatient urticaria diagnosis codes have limited predictive value for same-day influenza vaccine adverse event detection

scientific article

Outpatient use of cardiovascular drugs during pregnancy

scientific article

PCORnet® 2020: Current State, Accomplishments, and Future Directions

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

PS1-27: Use of Tumor Registry to Obtain Family History Information.

scientific article

PS1-46: HMORNnet: Shared Infrastructure for Distributed Querying by HMORN Collaboratives.

scientific article published in August 2012

PS2-07: Medication Use in Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Program.

scientific article

PS2-16: Surveillance for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgical Site Infections Using Claims Data.

scientific article published in August 2012

PS2-9: The NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory

Pediatricians' views on financial barriers and values for pneumococcal vaccine for children

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Pharmacy data for tuberculosis surveillance and assessment of patient management

scientific article

Post-PCV7 changes in colonizing pneumococcal serotypes in 16 Massachusetts communities, 2001 and 2004.

scientific article published in September 2005

Potential Drug???Drug Interactions in the Outpatient Setting

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Potential population-based electronic data sources for rapid pandemic influenza vaccine adverse event detection: a survey of health plans.

scientific article

Practical challenges in the conduct of pragmatic trials embedded in health plans: Lessons of IMPACT-AFib, an FDA-Catalyst trial

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Pragmatic clinical trials embedded in healthcare systems: generalizable lessons from the NIH Collaboratory

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Prescribing cascades in persons with Alzheimer's disease: engaging patients, caregivers, and providers in a qualitative evaluation of print educational materials

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Prescription drug use in pregnancy.

scientific article published in August 2004

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

scientific article

Quantifying interhospital patient sharing as a mechanism for infectious disease spread

scientific article

Ranking Hospitals Based on Colon Surgery and Abdominal Hysterectomy Surgical Site Infection Outcomes: Impact of Limiting Surveillance to the Operative Hospital

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Rapid and reproducible surveillance for ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published in February 2012

Rapid assessment of cardiovascular risk among users of smoking cessation drugs within the US Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel program.

scientific article published in May 2013

Real-time surveillance for tuberculosis using electronic health record data from an ambulatory practice in eastern Massachusetts.

scientific article

Real-time vaccine safety surveillance for the early detection of adverse events

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Reduced Risk of Neonatal Respiratory Infections Among Breastfed Girls but Not Boys ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2003

Reduction in antibiotic use among US children, 1996-2000.

scientific article published in September 2003

Reporting surgical site infections following total hip and knee arthroplasty: impact of limiting surveillance to the operative hospital

scientific article published on 2 August 2013

Reproducing Protocol-Based Studies Using Parameterizable Tools-Comparison of Analytic Approaches Used by Two Medical Product Surveillance Networks

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infections Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

scientific article published on July 2016

Risk factors for statin-associated rhabdomyolysis

scientific article published on March 2007

Risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome after meningococcal conjugate vaccination

scientific article published on 16 July 2012

Risk of Unexplained Acute Liver Failure in Diabetes Mellitus—Reply

scholarly article by K. Arnold Chan et al published 24 November 2003 in JAMA Internal Medicine

Risk of acquiring antibiotic-resistant bacteria from prior room occupants

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Risk of congenital malformations among infants exposed to antidepressants during pregnancy

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after previous infection or colonization

scientific article published on 17 January 2003

Risk of misleading ventilator-associated pneumonia rates with use of standard clinical and microbiological criteria

scientific article published in May 2008

Risks of congenital malformations and perinatal events among infants exposed to antidepressant medications during pregnancy

scientific article published on October 2007

Risks of congenital malformations and perinatal events among infants exposed to calcium channel and beta-blockers during pregnancy

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

Simulated anthrax attacks and syndromic surveillance

scientific article published in September 2005

Simulation shows hospitals that cooperate on infection control obtain better results than hospitals acting alone

scientific article published on October 2012

Social network analysis of patient sharing among hospitals in Orange County, California.

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Staphylococcal enterotoxin P predicts bacteremia in hospitalized patients colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 16 September 2013

Strain-relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from patients with repeated infection

scientific article published on April 2008

Success of program linking data sources to monitor H1N1 vaccine safety points to potential for even broader safety surveillance

scientific article

Supplementary table: epidemiology of neonatal infections: experience during and after hospitalization.

scientific article published in March 2003

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

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Surgical site infection surveillance following ambulatory surgery

scientific article published on February 2015

Surveillance for adverse events following receipt of pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine in the Post-Licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring (PRISM) System, 2009-2010.

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Syndromic surveillance using minimum transfer of identifiable data: the example of the National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program

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Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.

scientific article

The CDC SHIELD Orange County Project – Baseline Multi Drug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Prevalence in a Southern California Region.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

The FDA Sentinel Initiative - An Evolving National Resource

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

The Limited Utility of Ranking Hospitals Based on Their Colon Surgery Infection Rates

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

The New Sentinel Network — Improving the Evidence of Medical-Product Safety

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel program: status and direction

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The organizational structure and governing principles of the Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel pilot program

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The preventability of ventilator-associated events. The CDC Prevention Epicenters Wake Up and Breathe Collaborative.

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The projected health benefits of maternal group B streptococcal vaccination in the era of chemoprophylaxis

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The utility of claims data for infection surveillance following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

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Timely detection of localized excess influenza activity in Northern California across patient care, prescription, and laboratory data

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Toward a science of learning systems: a research agenda for the high-functioning Learning Health System

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Underuse of oral anticoagulants in privately insured patients with atrial fibrillation: A population being targeted by the IMplementation of a randomized controlled trial to imProve treatment with oral AntiCoagulanTs in patients with Atrial Fibrilla

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Use of Medicare claims to identify US hospitals with a high rate of surgical site infection after hip arthroplasty.

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Use of Medicare claims to rank hospitals by surgical site infection risk following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

scientific article published on August 2011

Use of Medicare diagnosis and procedure codes to improve detection of surgical site infections following hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, and vascular surgery.

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Use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy: a multisite study

scientific article published on October 2007

Use of automated ambulatory-care encounter records for detection of acute illness clusters, including potential bioterrorism events

scientific article published on August 2002

Use of prescription medications with a potential for fetal harm among pregnant women

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Using automated health plan data to assess infection risk from coronary artery bypass surgery

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Using electronic medical records to enhance detection and reporting of vaccine adverse events

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Validation of algorithms to ascertain clinical conditions and medical procedures used during pregnancy

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

Validation of diagnoses of peptic ulcers and bleeding from administrative databasesA multi-health maintenance organization study

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Validity of gout diagnoses in administrative data

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia--the wrong quality measure for benchmarking

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

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