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Donald A. Goldmann
Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Publications - 353
Citations - 29552
Donald A. Goldmann is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Intensive care. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 345 publications receiving 28089 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald A. Goldmann include Boston University & United States Public Health Service.
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Medication errors and adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients.
Rainu Kaushal,David W. Bates,Christopher P. Landrigan,Kathryn J. McKenna,Margaret D. Clapp,Frank Federico,Donald A. Goldmann +6 more
TL;DR: Medication errors are common in pediatric inpatient settings, and further efforts are needed to reduce them.
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Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm Resulting from Medical Care
Christopher P. Landrigan,Gareth Parry,Catherine B. Bones,Andrew D. Hackbarth,Donald A. Goldmann,Paul J. Sharek +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that harms remain common, with little evidence of widespread improvement, and further efforts are needed to translate effective safety interventions into routine practice and to monitor health care safety over time.
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Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance: Recommendations of the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
Walter J. Hierholzer,Julia S. Garner,Audrey B. Adams,Donald E. Craven,David W. Fleming,Susan W. Forlenza,Mary J. R. Gilchrist,Donald A. Goldmann,Elaine Larson,C. Glen Mayhall,Rita D. McCormick,Ronald Lee Nichols +11 more
TL;DR: A rapid increase in the incidence of infection and colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has been reported from U.S. hospitals in the last 5 years, and the lack of available antimicrobials for therapy of infections due to VRE poses several problems.
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Strategies to Prevent and Control the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial-Resistant Microorganisms in Hospitals: A Challenge to Hospital Leadership
Donald A. Goldmann,Robert A. Weinstein,Richard P. Wenzel,O. C. Tablan,Richard J. Duma,Robert P. Gaynes,J Schlosser,William J. Martone +7 more
TL;DR: To provide hospital leaders with strategic goals or actions likely to have a significant impact on antimicrobial resistance, outline outcome and process measures for evaluating progress toward each goal, describe potential barriers to success, and suggest countermeasures and novel improvement strategies.
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Hospital-acquired neonatal infections in developing countries
Anita K. M. Zaidi,W. Charles Huskins,Durrane Thaver,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Zohair Abbas,Donald A. Goldmann +5 more
TL;DR: Low-cost, "bundled" interventions using systems quality improvement approaches for improved infection control are possible, but should be supported by evidence in developing country settings.