Lecturer on Medicine, Channing Laboratory
Infectious Disease
Dr. Susan S. Huang, MD
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Susan Huang works in the field of Infectious Disease. He studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a top medical university. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 29 in primary care medicine Doctor Susan S. Huang, MD has written publications. He has 97 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Objective Sepsis Surveillance Using Electronic Clinical Data.'
Publications
- Quantifying the Exposure to Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens Among Patients Discharged From a Single Hospital Across All California Healthcare Facilities.
- Objective Sepsis Surveillance Using Electronic Clinical Data.
- Marked reduction in compliance with central line insertion practices (CLIP) when accounting for missing CLIP data and incomplete line capture.
- Substantial Variation in Hospital Rankings after Adjusting for Hospital-Level Predictors of Publicly-Reported Hospital-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection Rates.
- Healthcare-Associated Pathogens and Nursing Home Policies and Practices: Results From a National Survey.
- Surgical site infection surveillance following ambulatory surgery.
- Automated tracking and ordering of precautions for multidrug-resistant organisms.
- Cost-benefit analysis from the hospital perspective of universal active screening followed by contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carri...
- 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.
- Differences in Hospital-Associated Multidrug-Resistant Organisms and Clostridium difficile Rates Using 2-Day versus 3-Day Definitions.
- Electronic solutions to enhance tracking and compliance with mandatory influenza vaccination for all hospital staff.
- Medicare Claims Can Be Used to Identify US Hospitals With Higher Rates of Surgical Site Infection Following Vascular Surgery.
- Protective Effect of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Carriage against Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Acquisition in Nursing Homes: A Prospective Cross-S...
- Substantial Shifts in Ranking of California Hospitals by Hospital-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection Following Adjustment for Hospital Ch...
- 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.
- The spread and control of norovirus outbreaks among hospitals in a region: a simulation model.
- Strategies to Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Transmission and Infection in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update.
- The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research.
- Planned Analyses of the REDUCE MRSA Trial.
- Impact of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination on Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage in Young Children in Massachusetts.
- Do community-level predictors of pneumococcal carriage continue to play a role in the conjugate vaccine era?
- Are nursing homes less likely to admit methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers?
- Harnessing Claims to Improve Detection of Surgical Site Infections following Hysterectomy and Colorectal Surgery.
- Estimated burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in California hospitals after changes to administrative codes, 2005-2010.
- High Nasal Burden of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Increases Risk for Invasive Disease.
- A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization at Time of Hospital or Intensive C...
- Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection.
- Reply to crnich and drinka.
- Predictors of Hospitals with Endemic Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- The Regional Healthcare Ecosystem Analyst (RHEA): a simulation modeling tool to assist infectious disease control in a health system.
- Predicting High Prevalence of Community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains in Nursing Homes.
- The Importance of Nursing Homes in the Spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Among Hospitals.
- Discord among performance measures for central line-associated bloodstream infection.
- The potential regional impact of contact precaution use in nursing homes to control methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Chlorhexidine and mupirocin susceptibilities of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus from colonized nursing home residents.
- Use of Medicare Claims to Identify US Hospitals with a High Rate of Surgical Site Infection after Hip Arthroplasty.
- Reply to moehring et Al.
- Aging Population and Future Burden of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in the United States.
- Beyond 30 Days: Does Limiting the Duration of Surgical Site Infection Follow-up Limit Detection?
- Inclusion of 30-Day Postdischarge Detection Triples the Incidence of Hospital-Onset Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Differences in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Strains Isolated from Pediatric and Adult Patients from Hospitals in a Large California County.
- Use of Medicare Diagnosis and Procedure Codes to Improve Detection of Surgical Site Infections following Hip Arthroplasty, Knee Arthroplasty, and Vascular Surgery.
- Frequent Hospital Readmissions for Clostridium difficile Infection and the Impact on Estimates of Hospital-Associated C. difficile Burden.
- Voluntary to Mandatory: Evolution of Strategies and Attitudes toward Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel.
- Pneumococcal Carriage and Antibiotic Resistance in Young Children before 13-Valent Conjugate Vaccine.
- Colonization with antibiotic-susceptible strains protects against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition: a n...
- Use of Medicare Claims to Rank Hospitals by Surgical Site Infection Risk following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery.
- Modeling the Spread of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Outbreaks throughout the Hospitals in Orange County, California.
- New approaches to estimating national rates of invasive pneumococcal disease.
- Carried pneumococci in Massachusetts children: the contribution of clonal expansion and serotype switching.
- Social network analysis of patient sharing among hospitals in Orange County, California.
- Environmental cleaning intervention and risk of acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms from prior room occupants.
- Long-term care facilities: important participants of the acute care facility social network?
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection and Hospitalization in High-Risk Patients in the Year following Detection.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage in 10 nursing homes in Orange County, California.
- Risk of postdischarge infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus after initial infection or colonization.
- Quantifying interhospital patient sharing as a mechanism for infectious disease spread.
- Animal and human antibodies to distinct Staphylococcus aureus antigens mutually neutralize opsonic killing and protection in mice.
- Cluster randomized trials in comparative effectiveness research: randomizing hospitals to test methods for prevention of healthcare-associated infections.
- Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks in hospitals: a retrospective cohort study.
- Continued impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on carriage in young children.
- Health care-associated infection: assessing the value and validity of our measures.
- Risk of infection and death due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term carriers.
- Impact of an environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in int...
- Strain-relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from patients with repeated infection.
- Impact of a 16-community trial to promote judicious antibiotic use in Massachusetts.
- Emergence of 19A as virulent and multidrug resistant Pneumococcus in Massachusetts following universal immunization of infants with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
- Parental knowledge about antibiotic use: results of a cluster-randomized, multicommunity intervention.
- Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: Position s...
- Diversity and antibiotic resistance among nonvaccine serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage isolates in the post-heptavalent conjugate vaccine era.
- Impact of routine intensive care unit surveillance cultures and resultant barrier precautions on hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
- Risk of acquiring antibiotic-resistant bacteria from prior room occupants.
- Post-PCV7 changes in colonizing pneumococcal serotypes in 16 Massachusetts communities, 2001 and 2004.
- Modeling community- and individual-level effects of child-care center attendance on pneumococcal carriage.
- Increased use of second-generation macrolide antibiotics for children in nine health plans in the United States.
- Community-level predictors of pneumococcal carriage and resistance in young children.
- Antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era: predictors of carriage in a multicommunity sample.
- Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after previous infection or colonization.
- Antibiotic resistance patterns of bacterial isolates from blood in San Francisco County, California, 1996-1999.
- Rapid detection of single bacteria in unprocessed blood using Integrated Comprehensive Droplet Digital Detection.
- Risk factors for glaucoma suspicion in healthy young asian and caucasian americans.
- Attributable healthcare utilization and cost of pneumonia due to drug-resistant streptococcus pneumonia: a cost analysis.
- Confounding by indication affects antimicrobial risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition.
- Improving the assessment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci by routine screening.
- Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care units.
- Developing algorithms for healthcare insurers to systematically monitor surgical site infection rates.
- Recommendations for metrics for multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings: SHEA/HICPAC Position paper .
- Assessing the role of undetected colonization and isolation precautions in reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in intensive care units.
- Epidemiology and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus colonization in children in the post-PCV7 era.
- Re-emergence of the type 1 pilus among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Massachusetts, USA.
- Evidence that pneumococcal serotype replacement in Massachusetts following conjugate vaccination is now complete.
- Serotype specific invasive capacity and persistent reduction in invasive pneumococcal disease.
- Healthcare utilization and cost of pneumococcal disease in the United States.
- Successful strategies for high participation in three regional healthcare surveys: an observational study.
Schools
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch Of Med
University Ca
Brighamampwomen39S Hospma Gen Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
- Blue Card PPO
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Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
UCSF Medical Center -
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hospital
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UC Irvine Medical Center
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