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Rama Thyagarajan
Researcher at Beaumont Hospital
Publications - 14
Citations - 759
Rama Thyagarajan is an academic researcher from Beaumont Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications receiving 605 citations. Previous affiliations of Rama Thyagarajan include Beaumont Health & Johns Hopkins University.
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Infectious complications after kidney transplantation: current epidemiology and associated risk factors.
George Alangaden,Rama Thyagarajan,Scott A. Gruber,Katherina Morawski,James Garnick,Jose M. El-Amm,M. West,Dale H. Sillix,Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar,A. Haririan +9 more
TL;DR: The impact of newer immunosuppressive and antimicrobial prophylactic agents on the pattern of infectious complications following kidney transplantation has not been well studied.
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Excess Antibiotic Treatment Duration and Adverse Events in Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia: A Multihospital Cohort Study.
Valerie M. Vaughn,Scott A. Flanders,Ashley Snyder,Anna Conlon,Mary A.M. Rogers,Anurag N. Malani,Elizabeth McLaughlin,Sarah Bloemers,Arjun Srinivasan,Jerod Nagel,Scott Kaatz,Danielle Osterholzer,Rama Thyagarajan,Lama Hsaiky,Vineet Chopra,Tejal N Gandhi +15 more
TL;DR: An ongoing cohort study of medical patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia or health careassociated pneumonia in 43 hospitals across Michigan was used to quantify excess antibiotic treatment duration, determine factors associated with it, and evaluate its relationship with outcomes.
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Contact Precautions More Is Not Necessarily Better
Sorabh Dhar,Sorabh Dhar,Dror Marchaim,Ryan Tansek,Teena Chopra,Adnan Yousuf,Ashish Bhargava,Emily T. Martin,Thomas R. Talbot,Laura Johnson,Ameet Hingwe,Jerry M. Zuckerman,Bartholomew R Bono,Emily K. Shuman,Jose E Poblete,MaryAnn P Tran,Grace Kulhanek,Rama Thyagarajan,Vijayalakshmi Nagappan,Carrie Herzke,Trish M. Perl,Keith S. Kaye +21 more
TL;DR: As the proportion of patients in contact isolation increases, compliance with contact isolation precautions decreases, and placing 40% of patients under contact precautions represents a tipping point for noncompliance withContact isolation precautions measures.
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Risk Factors and Outcomes Associated with Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Hospitalized Patients
Lindsay A Petty,Valerie M. Vaughn,Scott A. Flanders,Anurag N. Malani,Anna Conlon,Keith S Kaye,Rama Thyagarajan,Danielle Osterholzer,Daniel Nielsen,Gregory A. Eschenauer,Sarah Bloemers,Elizabeth McLaughlin,Tejal N Gandhi +12 more
TL;DR: Antibiotic treatment did not appear to be associated with improved outcomes; rather, treatment was associated with longer duration of hospitalization after urine testing, and stewardship efforts should focus on improving urine testing practices and management strategies for elderly patients with altered mental status.
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Major Variation in MICs of Tigecycline in Gram-Negative Bacilli as a Function of Testing Method
Dror Marchaim,Jason M. Pogue,Oran Tzuman,Kayoko Hayakawa,Paul R. Lephart,Hossein Salimnia,Theresa Painter,Marcus J. Zervos,Laura E. Johnson,Mary Beth Perri,Pamela Hartman,Rama Thyagarajan,Sharon Major,Melanie Goodell,Mohamad G. Fakih,Laraine Washer,Duane W. Newton,Anurag N. Malani,Jason M. Wholehan,Lona Mody,Keith S. Kaye +20 more
TL;DR: Etest should probably not be used by laboratories for tigecycline MIC testing of A. baumannii isolates, since MICs are significantly elevated with Etest compared to those determined by the three other methods.