Publications

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

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

Health Aff (Millwood)
Lee BY, Bartsch SM, Wong KF, Yilmaz SL, Avery TR, Singh A, Song Y, Kim DS, Brown ST, Potter MA, Platt R, Huang SS

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
, 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

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

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

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

Clin Med Res
Lieu TA, Hinrichsen VL, Moreira A, Platt R

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

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

Time for a culture change?

N. Engl. J. Med.
Platt R

Multivariate scan statistics for disease surveillance.

Stat Med
Kulldorff M, Mostashari F, Duczmal L, Katherine Yih W, Kleinman K, Platt R

A beneficial side effect of the Medicare drug benefit.

N. Engl. J. Med.
Platt R, Ommaya A

Infection control practices to reduce airborne bacteria during total knee replacement: a hospital survey in four states.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Miner AL, Losina E, Katz JN, Fossel AH, Platt R

Laboratory monitoring of drugs at initiation of therapy in ambulatory care.

J Gen Intern Med
Raebel MA, Lyons EE, Andrade SE, Chan KA, Chester EA, Davis RL, Ellis JL, Feldstein A, Gunter MJ, Lafata JE, Long CL, Magid DJ, Selby JV, Simon SR, Platt R

Evaluating spatial surveillance: detection of known outbreaks in real data.

Stat Med
Kleinman K, Abrams A, Katherine Yih W, Platt R, Kulldorff M

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Raebel MA, McClure DL, Simon SR, Chan KA, Feldstein A, Andrade SE, Lafata JE, Roblin D, Davis RL, Gunter MJ, Platt R

Monitoring patient safety in health care: building the case for surrogate measures.

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf
Gaynes RP, Platt R

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Andrade SE, Raebel MA, Morse AN, Davis RL, Chan KA, Finkelstein JA, Fortman KK, McPhillips H, Roblin D, Smith DH, Yood MU, Platt R, H Gurwitz J