Publications

Relationship of pulmonary artery catheter use to mortality and resource utilization in patients with severe sepsis.

Crit. Care Med.
Yu DT, Platt R, Lanken PN, Black E, Sands KE, Schwartz JS, Hibberd PL, Graman PS, Kahn KL, Snydman DR, Parsonnet J, Moore R, Bates DW,

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Wright SB, Huskins WC, Dokholyan RS, Goldmann DA, Platt R

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

Am. J. Epidemiol.
Kleinman K, Lazarus R, Platt R

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

Pediatrics
O'Brien MA, Uyeki TM, Shay DK, Thompson WW, Kleinman K, McAdam A, Yu XJ, Platt R, Lieu TA

Time for a culture change?

N. Engl. J. Med.
Platt R

Real-time surveillance to assess risk of intussusception and other adverse events after pentavalent, bovine-derived rotavirus vaccine.

Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J.
Belongia EA, Irving SA, Shui IM, Kulldorff M, Lewis E, Yin R, Lieu TA, Weintraub E, Yih WK, Li R, Baggs J,

Enhancing patient safety by reducing healthcare-associated infections: the role of discovery and dissemination.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

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

Med Care
Platt R, Takvorian SU, Septimus E, Hickok J, Moody J, Perlin J, Jernigan JA, Kleinman K, Huang SS

Using a Handheld Device for Patient Data Collection: A Pilot for Medical Countermeasures Surveillance.

Public Health Rep
Daley MF, Goddard K, McClung M, Davidson A, Weiss G, Palen T, Nyirenda C, Platt R, Courtney B, Reichman ME

Charting the course for the future of science in healthcare epidemiology: results of a survey of the membership of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
, Sinaii N

Quantifying interhospital patient sharing as a mechanism for infectious disease spread.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Huang SS, Avery TR, Song Y, Elkins KR, Nguyen CC, Nutter SK, Nafday AA, Condon CJ, Chang MT, Chrest D, Boos J, Bobashev G, Wheaton W, Frank SA, Platt R, Lipsitch M, Bush RM, Eubank S, Burke DS, Lee BY

Potential Adverse Effects of Anesthesia in Children--Reply.

JAMA
Psaty BM, Platt R, Altman RB

Neurotoxicity of generic anesthesia agents in infants and children: an orphan research question in search of a sponsor.

JAMA
Psaty BM, Platt R, Altman RB

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Gidengil CA, Gay C, Huang SS, Platt R, Yokoe D, Lee GM

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

Stat Med
Greene SK, Kulldorff M, Huang J, Brand RJ, Kleinman KP, Hsu J, Platt R

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Septimus EJ, Hayden MK, Kleinman K, Avery TR, Moody J, Weinstein RA, Hickok J, Lankiewicz J, Gombosev A, Haffenreffer K, Kaganov RE, Jernigan JA, Perlin JB, Platt R, Huang SS

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

Arch. Intern. Med.
Datta R, Platt R, Yokoe DS, Huang SS

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

Med Care
Calderwood MS, Kleinman K, Bratzler DW, Ma A, Kaganov RE, Bruce CB, Balaconis EC, Canning C, Platt R, Huang SS, ,

Opportunity knocks: the electronic (public health) medical record.

Epidemiology
Platt R

Regulation and comparative effectiveness research--reply.

JAMA
Platt R, Kass NE, McGraw D