Professor of Population Medicine, HVMA, Fenway Boston

Internal Medicine

Richard Platt practices Internal Medicine. He went to Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care Richard Platt is a published doctor and has 28 publications published. The lastest was: 'Prospective influenza vaccine safety surveillance using fresh data in the Sentinel System.'

Publications

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• Objective Sepsis Surveillance Using Electronic Clinical Data.
• Prospective influenza vaccine safety surveillance using fresh data in the Sentinel System.
• Potential Adverse Effects of Anesthesia in Children-Reply.
• Surgical site infection surveillance following ambulatory surgery.
• Toward a science of learning systems: a research agenda for the high-functioning Learning Health System.
• Cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in an intensive care unit.
• Improving public reporting and data validation for complex surgical site infections after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and hip arthroplasty.
• The Preventability of Ventilator-Associated Events: The CDC Prevention Epicenters' Wake Up and Breathe Collaborative.
• MDPHnet: Secure, Distributed Sharing of Electronic Health Record Data for Public Health Surveillance, Evaluation, and Planning.
• Medicare Claims Can Be Used to Identify US Hospitals With Higher Rates of Surgical Site Infection Following Vascular Surgery.
• Does chlorhexidine bathing in adult intensive care units reduce blood culture contamination? A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial.
• Cost Savings of Universal Decolonization to Prevent Intensive Care Unit Infection: Implications of the REDUCE MRSA Trial.
• Comparison of Trends in Sepsis Incidence and Coding Using Administrative Claims versus Objective Clinical Data.
• The Utility of Claims Data for Infection Surveillance following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.
• Planned Analyses of the REDUCE MRSA Trial.
• Impact of Medicare's payment policy on mediastinitis following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in US hospitals.
• Big data in epidemiology: too big to fail?
• Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection.
• Is size the next big thing in epidemiology?
• Algorithms for identification of Guillain-Barré Syndrome among adolescents in claims databases.
• Infection prevention practices in adult intensive care units in a large community hospital system after implementing strategies to reduce health care-associated, methi...
• Use of Medicare Claims to Identify US Hospitals with a High Rate of Surgical Site Infection after Hip Arthroplasty.
• Automated Detection and Classification of Type 1 Versus Type 2 Diabetes Using Electronic Health Record Data.
• Integrating clinical practice and public health surveillance using electronic medical record systems.
• The role of comparative effectiveness research in transfusion medicine clinical trials: proceedings of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop.
• Launching PCORnet, a national patient-centered clinical research network.
• Confounding by indication affects antimicrobial risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

• Beth Israel Hospital

• Boston City Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Infectious Disease Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO

Education

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• Boston University Medical Center
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School

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