Publications

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

Validity of gout diagnoses in administrative data.

Arthritis Rheum.
Harrold LR, Saag KG, Yood RA, Mikuls TR, Andrade SE, Fouayzi H, Davis J, Chan KA, Raebel MA, Von Worley A, Platt R

Progress in surgical-site infection surveillance.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
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

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

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

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

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Davis RL, Rubanowice D, McPhillips H, Raebel MA, Andrade SE, Smith D, Yood MU, Platt R,

Toward better benchmarking.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Platt R

Resource utilization among patients with sepsis syndrome.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Bates DW, Yu DT, Black E, Sands KE, Schwartz JS, Hibberd PL, Graman PS, Lanken PN, Kahn KL, Snydman DR, Parsonnet J, Moore R, Platt R,

Ethics, regulation, and comparative effectiveness research: time for a change.

JAMA
Platt R, Kass NE, McGraw D

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

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

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

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Harrold LR, Patterson MK, Andrade SE, Dube T, Go AS, Buist AS, Chan KA, Weller PF, Wechsler ME, Yood RA, Davis KJ, Platt R, Walker AM

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

Am. J. Epidemiol.
Huang SS, Finkelstein JA, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman K, 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

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

J Urban Health
Platt R, Bocchino C, Caldwell B, Harmon R, Kleinman K, Lazarus R, Nelson AF, Nordin JD, Ritzwoller DP

Regulation and comparative effectiveness research--reply.

JAMA
Platt R, Kass NE, McGraw D

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