Publications

Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination.

BMC Public Health
Yih WK, Lieu TA, Rêgo VH, O'Brien MA, Shay DK, Yokoe DS, Platt R

Severe sepsis: variation in resource and therapeutic modality use among academic centers.

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

Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after previous infection or colonization.

Clin. Infect. Dis.
Huang SS, Platt R

A generalized linear mixed models approach for detecting incident clusters of disease in small areas, with an application to biological terrorism.

Am. J. Epidemiol.
Kleinman K, Lazarus R, Platt R

Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients.

Emerging Infect. Dis.
Miner AL, Sands KE, Yokoe DS, Freedman J, Thompson K, Livingston JM, Platt R

Administrative databases provide inaccurate data for surveillance of long-term central venous catheter-associated infections.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Wright SB, Huskins WC, Dokholyan RS, Goldmann DA, Platt R

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,

Incidence of outpatient visits and hospitalizations related to influenza in infants and young children.

Pediatrics
O'Brien MA, Uyeki TM, Shay DK, Thompson WW, Kleinman K, McAdam A, Yu XJ, Platt R, Lieu TA

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

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

Prescription drug use in pregnancy.

Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol.
Andrade SE, Gurwitz JH, Davis RL, Chan KA, Finkelstein JA, Fortman K, McPhillips H, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Smith DH, Yood MU, Morse AN, 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

Identification of patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) using automated data.

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Harrold LR, Andrade SE, Eisner M, Buist AS, Go A, Vollmer WM, Chan KA, Frazier EA, Weller PF, Wechsler ME, Davis KJ, Platt R

Pharmacy data for tuberculosis surveillance and assessment of patient management.

Emerging Infect. Dis.
Yokoe DS, Coon SW, Dokholyan R, Iannuzzi MC, Jones TF, Meredith S, Moore M, Phillips L, Ray W, Schech S, Shatin D, Platt R

Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatients.

Emerging Infect. Dis.
Yokoe DS, Noskin GA, Cunnigham SM, Zuccotti G, Plaskett T, Fraser VJ, Olsen MA, Tokars JI, Solomon S, Perl TM, Cosgrove SE, Tilson RS, Greenbaum M, Hooper DC, Sands KE, Tully J, Herwaldt La, Diekema DJ, Wong ES, Climo M, Platt R

Post-PCV7 changes in colonizing pneumococcal serotypes in 16 Massachusetts communities, 2001 and 2004.

Pediatrics
Huang SS, Platt R, Rifas-Shiman SL, Pelton SI, Goldmann D, Finkelstein JA

Antivirals and antibiotics for influenza in the United States, 1995--2002.

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Linder JA, Bates DW, Platt R

Health plan administrative databases can efficiently identify serious myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.

J Clin Epidemiol
Andrade SE, Graham DJ, Staffa JA, Schech SD, Shatin D, La Grenade L, Goodman MJ, Platt R, Gurwitz JH, Chan KA

Active surveillance of vaccine safety: a system to detect early signs of adverse events.

Epidemiology
Davis RL, Kolczak M, Lewis E, Nordin J, Goodman M, Shay DK, Platt R, Black S, Shinefield H, Chen RT

The projected health benefits of maternal group B streptococcal vaccination in the era of chemoprophylaxis.

Vaccine
Sinha A, Lieu TA, Paoletti LC, Weinstein MC, Platt R