Publications

Low frequency of treatment of osteoporosis among postmenopausal women following a fracture.

Arch. Intern. Med.
Andrade SE, Majumdar SR, Chan KA, Buist DS, Go AS, Goodman M, Smith DH, Platt R, Gurwitz JH

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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

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

Embedding cardiovascular research into practice.

JAMA
Califf RM, 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

Potential Adverse Effects of Anesthesia in Children--Reply.

JAMA
Psaty BM, Platt R, Altman RB

A beneficial side effect of the Medicare drug benefit.

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

A cohort study of the incidence of serious acute liver injury in diabetic patients treated with hypoglycemic agents.

Arch. Intern. Med.
Chan KA, Truman A, Gurwitz JH, Hurley JS, Martinson B, Platt R, Everhart JE, Moseley RH, Terrault N, Ackerson L, Selby JV

Cluster randomized trials to study the comparative effectiveness of therapeutics: stakeholders' concerns and recommendations.

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
Mazor KM, Sabin JE, Goff SL, Smith DH, Rolnick S, Roblin D, Raebel MA, Herrinton LJ, Gurwitz JH, Boudreau D, Meterko V, Dodd KS, Platt R

Estimation of the period prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease among nine health plans using computerized diagnoses and outpatient pharmacy dispensings.

Inflamm. Bowel Dis.
Herrinton LJ, Liu L, Lafata JE, Allison JE, Andrade SE, Korner EJ, Chan KA, Platt R, Hiatt D, O'Connor S

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

Chronic disease score as a predictor of hospitalization.

Epidemiology
Putnam KG, Buist DS, Fishman P, Andrade SE, Boles M, Chase GA, Goodman MJ, Gurwitz JH, Platt R, Raebel MA, Arnold Chan K

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

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf
Gaynes RP, Platt R

Reduction in antibiotic use among US children, 1996-2000.

Pediatrics
Finkelstein JA, Stille C, Nordin J, Davis R, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Go AS, Smith D, Johnson CC, Kleinman K, Chan KA, Platt R

Real-time surveillance to assess risk of intussusception and other adverse events after pentavalent, bovine-derived rotavirus vaccine.

Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J.
Belongia EA, Irving SA, Shui IM, Kulldorff M, Lewis E, Yin R, Lieu TA, Weintraub E, Yih WK, Li R, Baggs J,

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

Using automated health plan data to assess infection risk from coronary artery bypass surgery.

Emerging Infect. Dis.
Platt R, Kleinman K, Thompson K, Dokholyan RS, Livingston JM, Bergman A, Mason JH, Horan TC, Gaynes RP, Solomon SL, Sands KE

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

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

Cluster randomized trials: opportunities and barriers identified by leaders of eight health plans.

Med Care
Mazor KM, Sabin JE, Boudreau D, Goodman MJ, Gurwitz JH, Herrinton LJ, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Smith DH, Meterko V, Platt R