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Richard Platt

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1 Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection. N Engl J Med 2013 13.05
2 Incidence of hospitalized rhabdomyolysis in patients treated with lipid-lowering drugs. JAMA 2004 5.25
3 Prescription drug use in pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004 4.92
4 Effect of nonpayment for preventable infections in U.S. hospitals. N Engl J Med 2012 4.19
5 Design of a national distributed health data network. Ann Intern Med 2009 4.09
6 Use of automated ambulatory-care encounter records for detection of acute illness clusters, including potential bioterrorism events. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 3.79
7 A generalized linear mixed models approach for detecting incident clusters of disease in small areas, with an application to biological terrorism. Am J Epidemiol 2004 3.71
8 Post-PCV7 changes in colonizing pneumococcal serotypes in 16 Massachusetts communities, 2001 and 2004. Pediatrics 2005 3.42
9 Distributed health data networks: a practical and preferred approach to multi-institutional evaluations of comparative effectiveness, safety, and quality of care. Med Care 2010 3.29
10 Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after previous infection or colonization. Clin Infect Dis 2003 3.24
11 Developing the Sentinel System--a national resource for evidence development. N Engl J Med 2011 2.93
12 Use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy: a multisite study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2007 2.61
13 Impact of routine intensive care unit surveillance cultures and resultant barrier precautions on hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Clin Infect Dis 2006 2.57
14 Health and economic impact of surgical site infections diagnosed after hospital discharge. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 2.45
15 Automated identification of acute hepatitis B using electronic medical record data to facilitate public health surveillance. PLoS One 2008 2.45
16 Electronic Support for Public Health: validated case finding and reporting for notifiable diseases using electronic medical data. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008 2.44
17 Intussusception risk after rotavirus vaccination in U.S. infants. N Engl J Med 2014 2.41
18 Effect of increased cost-sharing on oral hypoglycemic use in five managed care organizations: how much is too much? Med Care 2005 2.33
19 Is size the next big thing in epidemiology? Epidemiology 2013 2.31
20 Multivariate scan statistics for disease surveillance. Stat Med 2007 2.27
21 Low frequency of treatment of osteoporosis among postmenopausal women following a fracture. Arch Intern Med 2003 2.19
22 Risk of acquiring antibiotic-resistant bacteria from prior room occupants. Arch Intern Med 2006 2.17
23 Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Crit Care Med 2012 2.17
24 Risks of congenital malformations and perinatal events among infants exposed to antidepressant medications during pregnancy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2007 2.09
25 Incidence of outpatient visits and hospitalizations related to influenza in infants and young children. Pediatrics 2004 2.08
26 Estimation of the period prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease among nine health plans using computerized diagnoses and outpatient pharmacy dispensings. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2007 2.03
27 Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care units. J Infect Dis 2006 1.97
28 The impact of prescribing safety alerts for elderly persons in an electronic medical record: an interrupted time series evaluation. Arch Intern Med 2006 1.91
29 Comparing drug effectiveness at health plans: the ethics of cluster randomized trials. Hastings Cent Rep 2008 1.86
30 FDA drug prescribing warnings: is the black box half empty or half full? Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2006 1.83
31 Rapid and reproducible surveillance for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 2012 1.81
32 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 2008 1.78
33 Reporting surgical site infections following total hip and knee arthroplasty: impact of limiting surveillance to the operative hospital. Clin Infect Dis 2013 1.75
34 Use of prescription medications with a potential for fetal harm among pregnant women. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2006 1.73
35 Relationship of pulmonary artery catheter use to mortality and resource utilization in patients with severe sepsis. Crit Care Med 2003 1.72
36 Reduction in antibiotic use among US children, 1996-2000. Pediatrics 2003 1.71
37 Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation. PLoS One 2011 1.70
38 Reducing warfarin medication interactions: an interrupted time series evaluation. Arch Intern Med 2006 1.67
39 Real-time vaccine safety surveillance for the early detection of adverse events. Med Care 2007 1.66
40 The preventability of ventilator-associated events. The CDC Prevention Epicenters Wake Up and Breathe Collaborative. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015 1.64
41 Improvement of intraoperative antibiotic prophylaxis in prolonged cardiac surgery by automated alerts in the operating room. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2003 1.62
42 Validity of gout diagnoses in administrative data. Arthritis Rheum 2007 1.62
43 Monitoring of drugs with a narrow therapeutic range in ambulatory care. Am J Manag Care 2006 1.60
44 A cohort study of the incidence of serious acute liver injury in diabetic patients treated with hypoglycemic agents. Arch Intern Med 2003 1.58
45 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and hospitalization in high-risk patients in the year following detection. PLoS One 2011 1.58
46 Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatients. Emerg Infect Dis 2004 1.56
47 Impact of a 16-community trial to promote judicious antibiotic use in Massachusetts. Pediatrics 2008 1.55
48 Beyond 30 days: does limiting the duration of surgical site infection follow-up limit detection? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2011 1.52
49 Simulated anthrax attacks and syndromic surveillance. Emerg Infect Dis 2005 1.47
50 Liver and thyroid monitoring in ambulatory patients prescribed amiodarone in 10 HMOs. J Manag Care Pharm 2006 1.46
51 Risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome after meningococcal conjugate vaccination. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2012 1.46
52 Integrating clinical practice and public health surveillance using electronic medical record systems. Am J Prev Med 2012 1.46
53 Improving the assessment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci by routine screening. J Infect Dis 2006 1.44
54 Staphylococcal enterotoxin P predicts bacteremia in hospitalized patients colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Infect Dis 2013 1.43
55 Chronic disease score as a predictor of hospitalization. Epidemiology 2002 1.43
56 Frequency of serum creatinine monitoring during allopurinol therapy in ambulatory patients. Ann Pharmacother 2006 1.42
57 Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks in hospitals: a retrospective cohort study. PLoS Med 2010 1.41
58 Computerized prescribing alerts and group academic detailing to reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications in older people. J Am Geriatr Soc 2006 1.40
59 Progress in surgical-site infection surveillance. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2002 1.39
60 Quantifying interhospital patient sharing as a mechanism for infectious disease spread. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010 1.39
61 Antidepressant medication use and risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2009 1.38
62 Antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era: predictors of carriage in a multicommunity sample. Pediatrics 2003 1.37
63 Early detection of adverse drug events within population-based health networks: application of sequential testing methods. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2007 1.35
64 Active surveillance of vaccine safety: a system to detect early signs of adverse events. Epidemiology 2005 1.35
65 Distributed data processing for public health surveillance. BMC Public Health 2006 1.28
66 Surveillance for adverse events following receipt of pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine in the Post-Licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring (PRISM) System, 2009-2010. Am J Epidemiol 2012 1.28
67 Environmental cleaning intervention and risk of acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms from prior room occupants. Arch Intern Med 2011 1.27
68 Detection of postoperative surgical-site infections: comparison of health plan-based surveillance with hospital-based programs. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2003 1.27
69 Real-time surveillance for tuberculosis using electronic health record data from an ambulatory practice in eastern Massachusetts. Public Health Rep 2010 1.27
70 Risk factors for statin-associated rhabdomyolysis. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2007 1.27
71 Social network analysis of patient sharing among hospitals in Orange County, California. Am J Public Health 2011 1.25
72 Strain-relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from patients with repeated infection. Clin Infect Dis 2008 1.24
73 Severe sepsis: variation in resource and therapeutic modality use among academic centers. Crit Care 2003 1.24
74 Laboratory monitoring of drugs at initiation of therapy in ambulatory care. J Gen Intern Med 2005 1.23
75 Outpatient use of cardiovascular drugs during pregnancy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2008 1.21
76 Automated detection and classification of type 1 versus type 2 diabetes using electronic health record data. Diabetes Care 2012 1.20
77 Active surveillance for adverse events: the experience of the Vaccine Safety Datalink project. Pediatrics 2011 1.20
78 Validation of diagnoses of peptic ulcers and bleeding from administrative databases: a multi-health maintenance organization study. J Clin Epidemiol 2002 1.19
79 Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness. PLoS One 2009 1.19
80 Ventilator-associated pneumonia--the wrong quality measure for benchmarking. Ann Intern Med 2007 1.16
81 Modeling the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks throughout the hospitals in Orange County, California. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2011 1.16
82 Antivirals and antibiotics for influenza in the United States, 1995--2002. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2005 1.16
83 Comparative effectiveness of different beta-adrenergic antagonists on mortality among adults with heart failure in clinical practice. Arch Intern Med 2008 1.16
84 Using electronic medical records to enhance detection and reporting of vaccine adverse events. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2007 1.14
85 Development of an algorithm for surveillance of ventilator-associated pneumonia with electronic data and comparison of algorithm results with clinician diagnoses . Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2008 1.14
86 Health plan administrative databases can efficiently identify serious myopathy and rhabdomyolysis. J Clin Epidemiol 2005 1.13
87 Pharmacy data for tuberculosis surveillance and assessment of patient management. Emerg Infect Dis 2004 1.12
88 Risks of congenital malformations and perinatal events among infants exposed to calcium channel and beta-blockers during pregnancy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2010 1.12
89 Time for a culture change? N Engl J Med 2011 1.11
90 Use of Medicare claims to rank hospitals by surgical site infection risk following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2011 1.11
91 A distributed research network model for post-marketing safety studies: the Meningococcal Vaccine Study. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2008 1.09
92 A randomized trial of direct-to-patient communication to enhance adherence to beta-blocker therapy following myocardial infarction. Arch Intern Med 2008 1.09
93 Use of Medicare diagnosis and procedure codes to improve detection of surgical site infections following hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, and vascular surgery. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2011 1.09
94 Reduced risk of neonatal respiratory infections among breastfed girls but not boys. Pediatrics 2003 1.08
95 Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program. Matern Child Health J 2012 1.08
96 Collaborations in population-based health research: the 17th annual HMO Research Network Conference, March 23-25, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Clin Med Res 2011 1.08
97 Comparative effectiveness of beta-adrenergic antagonists (atenolol, metoprolol tartrate, carvedilol) on the risk of rehospitalization in adults with heart failure. Am J Cardiol 2007 1.07
98 Community-level predictors of pneumococcal carriage and resistance in young children. Am J Epidemiol 2004 1.04
99 Laboratory monitoring of potassium and creatinine in ambulatory patients receiving angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2007 1.04
100 Cluster randomized trials to study the comparative effectiveness of therapeutics: stakeholders' concerns and recommendations. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2009 1.03
101 Timely detection of localized excess influenza activity in Northern California across patient care, prescription, and laboratory data. Stat Med 2011 1.03
102 Administrative databases provide inaccurate data for surveillance of long-term central venous catheter-associated infections. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2003 1.03
103 Embedding cardiovascular research into practice. JAMA 2013 1.02
104 Validation of algorithms to ascertain clinical conditions and medical procedures used during pregnancy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2011 1.02
105 Simulation shows hospitals that cooperate on infection control obtain better results than hospitals acting alone. Health Aff (Millwood) 2012 1.01
106 Integrating clinical practice and public health surveillance using electronic medical record systems. Am J Public Health 2012 1.01
107 The projected health benefits of maternal group B streptococcal vaccination in the era of chemoprophylaxis. Vaccine 2005 1.01
108 Evaluating real-time syndromic surveillance signals from ambulatory care data in four states. Public Health Rep 2010 0.99
109 Risk of misleading ventilator-associated pneumonia rates with use of standard clinical and microbiological criteria. Clin Infect Dis 2008 0.99
110 Rapid assessment of cardiovascular risk among users of smoking cessation drugs within the US Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel program. JAMA Intern Med 2013 0.98
111 The organizational structure and governing principles of the Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel pilot program. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2012 0.97
112 Predictive value of clinical diagnostic codes for the CDC case definition of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID): implications for surveillance. Sex Transm Dis 2003 0.97
113 Potential drug-drug interactions in the outpatient setting. Med Care 2006 0.96
114 Gastric and duodenal safety of daily alendronate. Arch Intern Med 2002 0.94
115 MDPHnet: secure, distributed sharing of electronic health record data for public health surveillance, evaluation, and planning. Am J Public Health 2014 0.94
116 Frequency of high-risk use of QT-prolonging medications. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2006 0.94
117 Use of Medicare claims to identify US hospitals with a high rate of surgical site infection after hip arthroplasty. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2012 0.94
118 Long-term care facilities: important participants of the acute care facility social network? PLoS One 2011 0.94
119 Potential population-based electronic data sources for rapid pandemic influenza vaccine adverse event detection: a survey of health plans. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2008 0.93
120 Colonization with antibiotic-susceptible strains protects against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition: a nested case-control study. Crit Care 2011 0.93
121 Developing algorithms for healthcare insurers to systematically monitor surgical site infection rates. BMC Med Res Methodol 2007 0.93
122 Developing a distributed research network to conduct population-based studies and safety surveillance. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2008 0.92
123 Maternal antibody at delivery protects neonates from early onset group B streptococcal disease. J Infect Dis 2013 0.92
124 Harnessing electronic health records for public health surveillance. Online J Public Health Inform 2011 0.91
125 Planned Analyses of the REDUCE MRSA Trial. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2014 0.91
126 Male sexual dysfunction associated with antiretroviral therapy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2002 0.91
127 Cluster randomized trials: opportunities and barriers identified by leaders of eight health plans. Med Care 2007 0.91
128 Epidemiology of neonatal infections: experience during and after hospitalization. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2003 0.90
129 Cost savings of universal decolonization to prevent intensive care unit infection: implications of the REDUCE MRSA trial. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 0.89
130 Incidence of Churg-Strauss syndrome in asthma drug users: a population-based perspective. J Rheumatol 2005 0.89
131 Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination. BMC Public Health 2003 0.88
132 Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients. Emerg Infect Dis 2004 0.87
133 Active influenza vaccine safety surveillance: potential within a healthcare claims environment. Med Care 2009 0.86
134 Impact of Medicare's payment policy on mediastinitis following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in US hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2013 0.86
135 Evaluation as part of operations: reconciling the common rule and continuous improvement. Commentary. Hastings Cent Rep 2013 0.86
136 The role of comparative effectiveness research in transfusion medicine clinical trials: proceedings of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop. Transfusion 2012 0.85
137 Academic detailing to improve laboratory testing among outpatient medication users. Med Care 2007 0.85
138 Administrative data used to identify patients with irritable bowel syndrome. J Clin Epidemiol 2008 0.85
139 Laboratory evaluation of potassium and creatinine among ambulatory patients prescribed spironolactone: are we monitoring for hyperkalemia? Ann Pharmacother 2007 0.85
140 Algorithms for identification of Guillain-Barré Syndrome among adolescents in claims databases. Vaccine 2013 0.84
141 Early adverse drug event signal detection within population-based health networks using sequential methods: key methodologic considerations. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2009 0.84
142 Outpatient urticaria diagnosis codes have limited predictive value for same-day influenza vaccine adverse event detection. J Clin Epidemiol 2009 0.83
143 Adverse events associated with prolonged antibiotic use. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2008 0.83
144 Success of program linking data sources to monitor H1N1 vaccine safety points to potential for even broader safety surveillance. Health Aff (Millwood) 2012 0.81
145 Can observational studies approximate RCTs? Value Health 2012 0.81
146 Lactate Testing in Suspected Sepsis: Trends and Predictors of Failure to Measure Levels. Crit Care Med 2015 0.81
147 Surgical Site Infections: Volume-Outcome Relationship and Year-to-Year Stability of Performance Rankings. Med Care 2017 0.81
148 Evaluating spatial surveillance: detection of known outbreaks in real data. Stat Med 2006 0.81
149 Deep infection after total knee replacement: impact of laminar airflow systems and body exhaust suits in the modern operating room. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2007 0.81
150 The utility of claims data for infection surveillance following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 0.80
151 Drug safety data mining with a tree-based scan statistic. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2013 0.79
152 Medicare claims can be used to identify US hospitals with higher rates of surgical site infection following vascular surgery. Med Care 2014 0.79
153 Big data in epidemiology: too big to fail? Epidemiology 2013 0.78
154 Identification of patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) using automated data. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2004 0.78
155 Targeted decolonization to prevent ICU infections. N Engl J Med 2013 0.78
156 Infection control practices to reduce airborne bacteria during total knee replacement: a hospital survey in four states. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2005 0.78
157 Does chlorhexidine bathing in adult intensive care units reduce blood culture contamination? A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014 0.78
158 Gastrointestinal disease outbreak detection using multiple data streams from electronic medical records. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2012 0.77
159 Resource utilization among patients with sepsis syndrome. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2003 0.77
160 Asthma drug use and the development of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS). Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2007 0.77
161 Pediatricians' views on financial barriers and values for pneumococcal vaccine for children. Ambul Pediatr 2002 0.77
162 Infection prevention practices in adult intensive care units in a large community hospital system after implementing strategies to reduce health care-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. Am J Infect Control 2012 0.77
163 Intrapartum antibiotics and neonatal invasive infections caused by organisms other than group B streptococcus. J Pediatr 2003 0.77
164 Liver function testing in patients on HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2003 0.76
165 Risk of congenital malformations among infants exposed to antidepressants during pregnancy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2008 0.75
166 Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery: does the past predict the future? Clin Infect Dis 2004 0.75
167 Toward better benchmarking. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2005 0.75
168 Supplementary table: epidemiology of neonatal infections: experience during and after hospitalization. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2003 0.75
169 Monitoring patient safety in health care: building the case for surrogate measures. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2006 0.75