Publications

Liver function testing in patients on HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors.

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Andrade SE, Donahue JG, Chan KA, Watson DJ, Platt R

Gastric and duodenal safety of daily alendronate.

Arch. Intern. Med.
Donahue JG, Chan KA, Andrade SE, Beck A, Boles M, Buist DS, Carey VJ, Chandler JM, Chase GA, Ettinger B, Fishman P, Goodman M, Guess HA, Gurwitz JH, LaCroix AZ, Levin TR, Platt R

Low frequency of treatment of osteoporosis among postmenopausal women following a fracture.

Arch. Intern. Med.
Andrade SE, Majumdar SR, Chan KA, Buist DS, Go AS, Goodman M, Smith DH, Platt R, Gurwitz JH

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

Pediatrics
Finkelstein JA, Huang SS, Daniel J, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman K, Goldmann D, Pelton SI, DeMaria A, Platt R

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Sands KE, Yokoe DS, Hooper DC, Tully JL, Horan TC, Gaynes RP, Solomon SL, Platt R

Predictive value of clinical diagnostic codes for the CDC case definition of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID): implications for surveillance.

Sex Transm Dis
Ratelle S, Yokoe D, Blejan C, Whelan M, Tang Y, Platt R, Blair R, Tao G, Irwin K

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,

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Forrow S, Campion DM, Herrinton LJ, Nair VP, Robb MA, Wilson M, Platt R

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

Epidemiology
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

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
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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

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

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

Time for a culture change?

N. Engl. J. Med.
Platt R

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Lee BY, McGlone SM, Wong KF, Yilmaz SL, Avery TR, Song Y, Christie R, Eubank S, Brown ST, Epstein JM, Parker JI, Burke DS, Platt R, Huang SS

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Huang SS, Placzek H, Livingston J, Ma A, Onufrak F, Lankiewicz J, Kleinman K, Bratzler D, Olsen MA, Lyles R, Khan Y, Wright P, Yokoe DS, Fraser VJ, Weinstein RA, Stevenson K, Hooper D, Vostok J, Datta R, Nsa W, Platt R

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