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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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Impact of a 16-community trial to promote judicious antibiotic use in Massachusetts.
Jonathan A. Finkelstein,Susan S. Huang,Susan S. Huang,Ken Kleinman,Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman,Christopher J. Stille,James Daniel,Nancy L. Schiff,Ron Steingard,Stephen B. Soumerai,Dennis Ross-Degnan,Donald A. Goldmann,Richard Platt +12 more
TL;DR: A sustained, multifaceted, community-level intervention was only modestly successful at decreasing overall antibiotic use beyond substantial secular trends, but the more robust impact among Medicaid-insured children and for specific medication classes provides an argument for specific targeting of resources for patient and physician behavior change.
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Empyema in children: clinical course and long-term follow-up.
F. J. McLaughlin,Donald A. Goldmann,D M Rosenbaum,G.B.C. Harris,Samuel R. Schuster,Denise J. Strieder +5 more
TL;DR: Children with loculated empyema can be treated successfully with antibiotics and chest tube drainage, and further surgery is rarely required.
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Hand-washing and nosocomial infections.
Donald A. Goldmann,Elaine Larson +1 more
TL;DR: Experts in infection control coax, cajole, threaten, and plead, but still their colleagues neglect to wash their hands.
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The Promise of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Paul Sullivan,Donald A. Goldmann +1 more
TL;DR: Evaluation of the implementation and dissemination strategies for mainstream CER is embedded within several programs funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that share the broad objective of spreading CER findings widely.
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Hospital readmission and parent perceptions of their child's hospital discharge
Jay G. Berry,Sonja I. Ziniel,Linda Freeman,William J. Kaplan,Richard C. Antonelli,Eric A. Coleman,Stephanie Porter,Donald A. Goldmann +7 more
TL;DR: Parent perception of their child's health at discharge was associated with the risk of a subsequent, unplanned readmission, and addressing concerns with this perception prior to hospital discharge may help mitigate readmission risk in children.