Publications

Prevalence, Underlying Causes, and Preventability of Sepsis-Associated Mortality in US Acute Care Hospitals.

JAMA Netw Open
Rhee C, Jones TM, Hamad Y, Pande A, Varon J, O'Brien C, Anderson DJ, Warren DK, Dantes RB, Epstein L, Klompas M,

Toward a More Nuanced Approach to the Early Administration of Intravenous Fluids in Patients With Sepsis.

JAMA Netw Open
Rhee C, Kalil AC

Current Sepsis Mandates Are Overly Prescriptive, and Some Aspects May Be Harmful.

Crit. Care Med.
Klompas M, Rhee C

Comparison of hospital surgical site infection rates and rankings using claims versus National Healthcare Safety Network surveillance data.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Rhee C, Wang R, Jentzsch MS, Broadwell C, Hsu H, Jin R, Horan K, Lee GM

Variation in Identifying Sepsis and Organ Dysfunction Using Administrative Versus Electronic Clinical Data and Impact on Hospital Outcome Comparisons.

Crit. Care Med.
Rhee C, Jentzsch MS, Kadri SS, Seymour CW, Angus DC, Murphy DJ, Martin GS, Dantes RB, Epstein L, Fiore AE, Jernigan JA, Danner RL, Warren DK, Septimus EJ, Hickok J, Poland RE, Jin R, Fram D, Schaaf R, Wang R, Klompas M,

Presenting Symptoms Independently Predict Mortality in Septic Shock: Importance of a Previously Unmeasured Confounder.

Crit Care Med
Filbin MR, Lynch J, Gillingham TD, Thorsen JE, Pasakarnis CL, Nepal S, Matsushima M, Rhee C, Heldt T, Reisner AT.

Using objective clinical data to track progress on preventing and treating sepsis: CDC's new 'Adult Sepsis Event' surveillance strategy.

BMJ Qual Saf
Rhee C, Dantes RB, Epstein L, Klompas M

Impact of the 2012 Medicaid Health Care-Acquired Conditions Policy on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection and Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection Billing Rates.

Open Forum Infect Dis
Rhee C, Wang R, Jentzsch MS, Hsu H, Kawai AT, Jin R, Horan K, Broadwell C, Lee GM

Difficult-to-Treat Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteremia at 173 US Hospitals: Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Prevalence, Predictors, and Outcome of Resistance to All First-line Agents.

Clin. Infect. Dis.
Kadri SS, Adjemian J, Lai YL, Spaulding AB, Ricotta E, Prevots DR, Palmore TN, Rhee C, Klompas M, Dekker JP, Powers JH, Suffredini AF, Hooper DC, Fridkin S, Danner RL,

Trends in "usual care" for septic shock.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Hume PS, Varon J, Englert JA, Hurwitz S, Klompas M, Baron RM, Rhee C

Compliance With the National SEP-1 Quality Measure and Association With Sepsis Outcomes: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study.

Crit. Care Med.
Rhee C, Filbin MR, Massaro AF, Bulger AL, McEachern D, Tobin KA, Kitch BT, Thurlo-Walsh B, Kadar A, Koffman A, Pande A, Hamad Y, Warren DK, Jones TM, O'Brien C, Anderson DJ, Wang R, Klompas M,

Variability in determining sepsis time zero and bundle compliance rates for the centers for medicare and medicaid services SEP-1 measure.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Rhee C, Brown SR, Jones TM, O'Brien C, Pande A, Hamad Y, Bulger AL, Tobin KA, Massaro AF, Anderson DJ, Warren DK, Klompas M,

The Impact of the Medicaid Healthcare-Associated Condition Program on Mediastinitis Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Hsu HE, Kawai AT, Wang R, Jentzsch MS, Rhee C, Horan K, Jin R, Goldmann D, Lee GM

Missed Opportunities for Better Sepsis Care or Misplaced Blame? Deconstructing Patients' Encounters in the Week Before Sepsis Hospitalizations.

Crit. Care Med.
Klompas M, Rhee C

Incidence and Trends of Sepsis in US Hospitals Using Clinical vs Claims Data, 2009-2014.

JAMA
Rhee C, Dantes R, Epstein L, Murphy DJ, Seymour CW, Iwashyna TJ, Kadri SS, Angus DC, Danner RL, Fiore AE, Jernigan JA, Martin GS, Septimus E, Warren DK, Karcz A, Chan C, Menchaca JT, Wang R, Gruber S, Klompas M,

What Is the National Burden of Sepsis in U.S. Emergency Departments? It Depends on the Definition.

Crit. Care Med.
Rhee C, Klompas M

New Sepsis and Septic Shock Definitions: Clinical Implications and Controversies.

Infect. Dis. Clin. North Am.
Rhee C, Klompas M

Impact of Intravenous Immunoglobulin on Survival in Necrotizing Fasciitis with Vasopressor-dependent Shock: A Propensity-Score Matched Analysis from 130 US Hospitals.

Clin. Infect. Dis.
Kadri SS, Swihart BJ, Bonne SL, Hohmann SF, Hennessy LV, Louras P, Evans HL, Rhee C, Suffredini AF, Hooper DC, Follmann DA, Bulger E, Danner RL

Impact of Intravenous Immunoglobulin on Survival in Necrotizing Fasciitis with Vasopressor-dependent Shock: A Propensity-Score Matched Analysis from 130 US Hospitals.

Clin. Infect. Dis.
Kadri SS, Swihart BJ, Bonne SL, Hohmann SF, Hennessy LV, Louras P, Evans HL, Rhee C, Suffredini AF, Hooper DC, Follmann DA, Bulger E, Danner RL

Using Procalcitonin to Guide Antibiotic Therapy.

Open Forum Infect Dis
Rhee C