Deborah S Yokoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5543448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah S Yokoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah S |
| FAMILY NAME | Yokoe |
| SIGNATURE | YOKOE D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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…
Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination
The success of smallpox vaccination efforts will ultimately depend on the relative weight in people's minds of the risk of vaccine adverse events compared with the risk of being exposed to the disease. Although more than half of the respondents thought the likelihood of a bioterrorist smallpox attack was intermediate or high, less than 10% of the group slated for vaccination has actually accepted it at this time. Unless new information about the …
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Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination
The success of smallpox vaccination efforts will ultimately depend on the relative weight in people's minds of the risk of vaccine adverse events compared with the risk of being exposed to the disease. Although more than half of the respondents thought the likelihood of a bioterrorist smallpox attack was intermediate or high, less than 10% of the group slated for vaccination has actually accepted it at this time. Unless new information about the …
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…
Health care (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Arthroplasty (1 works) · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (1 works) · Biostatistics (1 works) · Confidence interval (1 works) · Emergency Medicine (1 works) · Emergency Medicine (1 works) · Environmental health (1 works)