Publications

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

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

Adverse events associated with prolonged antibiotic use.

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Meropol SB, Chan KA, Chen Z, Finkelstein JA, Hennessy S, Lautenbach E, Platt R, Schech SD, Shatin D, Metlay JP

Risk of congenital malformations among infants exposed to antidepressants during pregnancy.

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Davis RL, Andrade S, Platt R

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

Clin. Infect. Dis.
Huang SS, Diekema DJ, Warren DK, Zuccotti G, Winokur PL, Tendolkar S, Boyken L, Datta R, Jones RM, Ward MA, Aubrey T, Onderdonk AB, Garcia C, Platt R

Time for a culture change?

N. Engl. J. Med.
Platt R

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Platt R, Carnahan RM, Brown JS, Chrischilles E, Curtis LH, Hennessy S, Nelson JC, Racoosin JA, Robb M, Schneeweiss S, Toh S, Weiner MG

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.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Goodman ER, Platt R, Bass R, Onderdonk AB, Yokoe DS, Huang SS

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

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Platt R, Madre L, Reynolds R, Tilson H

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

Hastings Cent Rep
Sabin JE, Mazor K, Meterko V, Goff SL, Platt R

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

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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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

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

Arch. Intern. Med.
Go AS, Yang J, Gurwitz JH, Hsu J, Lane K, Platt R

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Andrade SE, McPhillips H, Loren D, Raebel MA, Lane K, Livingston J, Boudreau DM, Smith DH, Davis RL, Willy ME, 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,

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Mazor KM, Sabin JE, Goff SL, Smith DH, Rolnick S, Roblin D, Raebel MA, Herrinton LJ, Gurwitz JH, Boudreau D, Meterko V, Dodd KS, Platt R

Monitoring of drugs with a narrow therapeutic range in ambulatory care.

Am J Manag Care
Raebel MA, Carroll NM, Andrade SE, Chester EA, Lafata JE, Feldstein A, Gunter MJ, Nelson WW, Simon SR, Chan KA, Davis RL, Platt R