Kim Kleinman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1536396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Kleinman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleinman |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5600-5834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Working at the Intersection of the Histories of Science, Technology, and Agriculture
Genera, evolution, and botanists in 1940
Surgical Site Infections
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infection (SSI) rates are publicly reported as quality metrics and increasingly used to determine financial reimbursement. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the volume-outcome relationship as well as the year-to-year stability of performance rankings following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and hip arthroplasty. RESEARCH DESIGN: We performed a retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries who underwent CABG surg…
Effects of Proximity to Supermarkets on a Randomized Trial Studying Interventions for Obesity
Objectives. To determine whether proximity to a supermarket modified the effects of an obesity intervention. Methods. We examined 498 children aged 6 to 12 years with a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile participating in an obesity trial in Massachusetts in 2011 to 2013. The practice-based interventions included computerized clinician decision support plus family self-guided behavior change or health coaching. Outcomes were 1-y…
Racial/ethnic and immigrant differences in early childhood diet quality
Objective To assess racial/ethnic differences in the diet in young children and the explanatory role of maternal BMI, immigrant status and perception of child's weight. Design Among white, black and Hispanic 3-year-olds, we used negative binomial and linear regression to examine associations of race/ethnicity with foods and nutrients assessed by a validated FFQ. Setting Project Viva, Boston (MA), USA. Subjects Children aged 3 years ( n 898). Resu…
Medicare Claims Can Be Used to Identify US Hospitals With Higher Rates of Surgical Site Infection Following Vascular Surgery
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) following vascular surgery have high morbidity and costs, and are increasingly tracked as hospital quality measures. OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of Medicare claims to identify US hospitals with high SSI rates after vascular surgery. RESEARCH DESIGN: Using claims from fee-for-service Medicare enrollees of age 65 years and older who underwent vascular surgery from 2005 to 2008, we derived hospital ra…
The association of urbanicity with infant sleep duration
Founding Gardeners
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Early-Life Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity
OBJECTIVE: By the preschool years, racial/ethnic disparities in obesity prevalence are already present. The objective of this study was to examine racial/ethnic differences in early-life risk factors for childhood obesity. METHODS: A total of 1343 white, 355 black, and 128 Hispanic mother-child pairs were studied in a prospective study. Mother's reported child's race/ethnicity. The main outcome measures were risk factors from the prenatal period …
Cluster Randomized Trials in Comparative Effectiveness Research
BACKGROUND: The need for evidence about the effectiveness of therapeutics and other medical practices has triggered new interest in methods for comparative effectiveness research. OBJECTIVE: Describe an approach to comparative effectiveness research involving cluster randomized trials in networks of hospitals, health plans, or medical practices with centralized administrative and informatics capabilities. RESEARCH DESIGN: We discuss the example o…
Much Ado About Nothing
Missing data are a recurring problem that can cause bias or lead to inefficient analyses. Development of statistical methods to address missingness have been actively pursued in recent years, including imputation, likelihood and weighting approaches. Each approach is more complicated when there are many patterns of missing values, or when both categorical and continuous random variables are involved. Implementations of routines to incorporate obs…
Mendel's Legacy
Reviewed by: Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics Kim Kleinman Elof Axel Carlson . Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004. xix + 332 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-87969-675-3). Elof Axel Carlson offers this book as a first full historical assessment of the era of genetics from the rediscovery of Mendel around 1900 through Watson and Crick's model of DNA. Previous wo…
Plants, Patients, and the Historian
Paolo Palladino. Plants, Patients, and the Historian: (Re)membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Encounters: Cultural Histories. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003. ix + 250 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 0-8135-3237-X), $30.00 (paperbound, 0-8135-3238-8)
A nearly continuous measure of birth weight for gestational age using a United States national reference
BACKGROUND: Fully understanding the determinants and sequelae of fetal growth requires a continuous measure of birth weight adjusted for gestational age. Published United States reference data, however, provide estimates only of the median and lowest and highest 5th and 10th percentiles for birth weight at each gestational age. The purpose of our analysis was to create more continuous reference measures of birth weight for gestational age for use…
Good Study Design and Analysis Plans as Features of Ethical Research with Humans
Syndromic surveillance using minimum transfer of identifiable data
Joseph Ewan, 24 October 1909-5 December 1999Nesta Dunn Ewan, 8 November 1908-13 September 2000
Active
Using automated medical records for rapid identification of illness syndromes (syndromic surveillance)
This information complements existing surveillance programs by assessing the large majority of episodes of illness for which no etiologic agents are identified. Additional advantages include: a) sensitivity, uniformity and efficiency, since detection of events does not depend on clinicians' to actively report diagnoses, b) timeliness, the data are available within a day of the clinical event; and c) ease of integration into automated surveillance…
Socioeconomic factors and incidence of erectile dysfunction
Effects of Proximity to Supermarkets on a Randomized Trial Studying Interventions for Obesity
Objectives. To determine whether proximity to a supermarket modified the effects of an obesity intervention. Methods. We examined 498 children aged 6 to 12 years with a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile participating in an obesity trial in Massachusetts in 2011 to 2013. The practice-based interventions included computerized clinician decision support plus family self-guided behavior change or health coaching. Outcomes were 1-y…
The association of urbanicity with infant sleep duration
Syndromic surveillance using minimum transfer of identifiable data
Socioeconomic factors and incidence of erectile dysfunction
Socioeconomic factors and incidence of erectile dysfunction
Active
Using automated medical records for rapid identification of illness syndromes (syndromic surveillance)
This information complements existing surveillance programs by assessing the large majority of episodes of illness for which no etiologic agents are identified. Additional advantages include: a) sensitivity, uniformity and efficiency, since detection of events does not depend on clinicians' to actively report diagnoses, b) timeliness, the data are available within a day of the clinical event; and c) ease of integration into automated surveillance…
Joseph Ewan, 24 October 1909-5 December 1999Nesta Dunn Ewan, 8 November 1908-13 September 2000
A nearly continuous measure of birth weight for gestational age using a United States national reference
BACKGROUND: Fully understanding the determinants and sequelae of fetal growth requires a continuous measure of birth weight adjusted for gestational age. Published United States reference data, however, provide estimates only of the median and lowest and highest 5th and 10th percentiles for birth weight at each gestational age. The purpose of our analysis was to create more continuous reference measures of birth weight for gestational age for use…
Good Study Design and Analysis Plans as Features of Ethical Research with Humans
Syndromic surveillance using minimum transfer of identifiable data
Plants, Patients, and the Historian
Paolo Palladino. Plants, Patients, and the Historian: (Re)membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Encounters: Cultural Histories. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003. ix + 250 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth, 0-8135-3237-X), $30.00 (paperbound, 0-8135-3238-8)
Mendel's Legacy
Reviewed by: Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics Kim Kleinman Elof Axel Carlson . Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004. xix + 332 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-87969-675-3). Elof Axel Carlson offers this book as a first full historical assessment of the era of genetics from the rediscovery of Mendel around 1900 through Watson and Crick's model of DNA. Previous wo…
Much Ado About Nothing
Missing data are a recurring problem that can cause bias or lead to inefficient analyses. Development of statistical methods to address missingness have been actively pursued in recent years, including imputation, likelihood and weighting approaches. Each approach is more complicated when there are many patterns of missing values, or when both categorical and continuous random variables are involved. Implementations of routines to incorporate obs…
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Early-Life Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity
OBJECTIVE: By the preschool years, racial/ethnic disparities in obesity prevalence are already present. The objective of this study was to examine racial/ethnic differences in early-life risk factors for childhood obesity. METHODS: A total of 1343 white, 355 black, and 128 Hispanic mother-child pairs were studied in a prospective study. Mother's reported child's race/ethnicity. The main outcome measures were risk factors from the prenatal period …
Cluster Randomized Trials in Comparative Effectiveness Research
BACKGROUND: The need for evidence about the effectiveness of therapeutics and other medical practices has triggered new interest in methods for comparative effectiveness research. OBJECTIVE: Describe an approach to comparative effectiveness research involving cluster randomized trials in networks of hospitals, health plans, or medical practices with centralized administrative and informatics capabilities. RESEARCH DESIGN: We discuss the example o…
Founding Gardeners
The association of urbanicity with infant sleep duration
Racial/ethnic and immigrant differences in early childhood diet quality
Objective To assess racial/ethnic differences in the diet in young children and the explanatory role of maternal BMI, immigrant status and perception of child's weight. Design Among white, black and Hispanic 3-year-olds, we used negative binomial and linear regression to examine associations of race/ethnicity with foods and nutrients assessed by a validated FFQ. Setting Project Viva, Boston (MA), USA. Subjects Children aged 3 years ( n 898). Resu…
Medicare Claims Can Be Used to Identify US Hospitals With Higher Rates of Surgical Site Infection Following Vascular Surgery
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) following vascular surgery have high morbidity and costs, and are increasingly tracked as hospital quality measures. OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of Medicare claims to identify US hospitals with high SSI rates after vascular surgery. RESEARCH DESIGN: Using claims from fee-for-service Medicare enrollees of age 65 years and older who underwent vascular surgery from 2005 to 2008, we derived hospital ra…
Effects of Proximity to Supermarkets on a Randomized Trial Studying Interventions for Obesity
Objectives. To determine whether proximity to a supermarket modified the effects of an obesity intervention. Methods. We examined 498 children aged 6 to 12 years with a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile participating in an obesity trial in Massachusetts in 2011 to 2013. The practice-based interventions included computerized clinician decision support plus family self-guided behavior change or health coaching. Outcomes were 1-y…
Genera, evolution, and botanists in 1940
Surgical Site Infections
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infection (SSI) rates are publicly reported as quality metrics and increasingly used to determine financial reimbursement. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the volume-outcome relationship as well as the year-to-year stability of performance rankings following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and hip arthroplasty. RESEARCH DESIGN: We performed a retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries who underwent CABG surg…
Working at the Intersection of the Histories of Science, Technology, and Agriculture
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