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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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The Role of Epitope Specificity in the Human Opsonic Antibody Response to the Staphylococcal Surface Polysaccharide Poly N-Acetyl Glucosamine
Casie Anne Kelly-Quintos,Andrea Kropec,Stacy Briggs,Claudia L. Ordonez,Donald A. Goldmann,Gerald B. Pier +5 more
TL;DR: Human antibodies to PNAG that mediate opsonic killing bind primarily to the nonacetylated epitopes of this antigen, which indicates that these antigenic determinants are the dominant targets of the functional human antibody response to staphylococcal PNAg.
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Impact of a health maintenance organization hospitalist system in academic pediatrics.
Christopher P. Landrigan,Rajendu Srivastava,Rajendu Srivastava,Sharon Muret-Wagstaff,Stephen B. Soumerai,Dennis Ross-Degnan,John W. Graef,Charles J. Homer,Donald A. Goldmann +8 more
TL;DR: A pediatric hospitalist system within a staff-model not-for-profit HMO significantly improved LOS, cost, and parental ratings of care without affecting rates of posthospitalization follow-up.
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Telithromycin: A Ketolide Antibiotic for Treatment of Respiratory Tract Infections
John R. Lonks,Donald A. Goldmann +1 more
TL;DR: Telithromycin, a recently approved ketolide antibiotic derived from 14-membered macrolides, is active against erythromycin-resistant pneumococci with constitutive macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin B resistance.
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A ‘work smarter, not harder’ approach to improving healthcare quality
TL;DR: The Institute of Medicine's Crossing the Quality Chasm report collated the evidence of the need for change and provided a framework and a set of key recommendations that challenged providers, organisations, professionals and policymakers to pursue a common goal of high-quality healthcare for all.
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Blood-borne pathogens and nosocomial infections.
TL;DR: Surgeons and other health care professionals who are infected with HIV or HCV pose a very small risk to their patients, although a number of outbreaks have been traced to surgeons who are HBV carriers; most have been Hb(e)Ag-positive.