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Michael Klompas

Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Publications -  349
Citations -  21009

Michael Klompas is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Pneumonia. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 290 publications receiving 14548 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Klompas include Harvard University & University of Manitoba.

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Survey of COVID-19 Infection Control Policies at Leading U.S. Academic Hospitals in the Context of the Initial Omicron Surge.

TL;DR: There is substantial variation in leading hospitals' COVID-19 infection control practices, and clearer public health guidance and transparency around hospitals' policies may facilitate more consistent national standards.
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The "last breath" of the ventilator-associated pneumonia surveillance definition*.

TL;DR: VAP is simply too subjective, inaccurate, and prone to bias to yield dependable answers in any of these spheres, and sobering results remind us yet again that VAP is a fundamentally unreliable outcome measure.
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Variability in mean duration of mechanical ventilation among community hospitals.

TL;DR: Intensive care units' mean ventilator-days per patient is explored as a possible objective alternative to ventilATOR-associated pneumonia rates for assessing quality of care for ventilated Patients.
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Primary Care Providers' Perspectives on Using Automated HIV Risk Prediction Models to Identify Potential Candidates for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis.

TL;DR: In this paper, focus groups with primary care providers (PCPs) were conducted to elicit their perspectives on using prediction models to identify PrEP candidates in clinical practice and found that PCPs were receptive to using prediction model to identify HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
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Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Patients With Sepsis Discharge Diagnosis Codes and Short Lengths of Stay in U.S. Hospitals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified hospitalizations with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition codes for sepsis and compared "short-stay" patients (defined as discharge alive within 3 d) versus nonshort-stay patients using detailed electronic health record data.