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| Margarette KolczakSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Variation in hepatitis B immunization coverage rates associated with provider practices after the temporary suspension of the birth doseNancy D Lin
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Pediatr 6:31. 2006....- Active surveillance of vaccine safety: a system to detect early signs of adverse eventsRobert L Davis
Departments of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Epidemiology 16:336-41. 2005..To evaluate the feasibility of developing such systems, we used 5 years of data from 4 health maintenance organizations within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Safety Datalink... - Computerized physician order entry systems: the coming of age for outpatient medicineRobert L Davis
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, USA
PLoS Med 2:e290. 2005 - The emergence of biobanks: practical design considerations for large population-based studies of gene-environment interactionsRobert L Davis
Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Community Genet 10:181-5. 2007.... - Compliance with national immunization guidelines for children younger than 2 years, 1996-1999Loren K Mell
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 115:461-7. 2005..6% of children were compliant with prevailing childhood immunization recommendations from 1996 to 1999. Efforts to improve compliance with guidelines are recommended, to optimize childhood infectious disease prevention... - Post-marketing evaluation of the short term safety of COMVAXRobert L Davis
Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Vaccine 22:536-43. 2004..The total number of children hospitalized with fever was seven out of 12,468 children; all recovered fully. In this study population of 27,802 vaccine recipients, COMVAX appeared to have a favorable safety profile... - Polio extraimmunization in children younger than 2 years after changes in immunization recommendationsLoren K Mell
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 111:296-301. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Poliovirus extraimmunization rates have fallen dramatically in association with the change-over to the all inactivated polio virus schedule... - Impact of the introduction of a combined Haemophilus B conjugate vaccine and hepatitis B recombinant vaccine on vaccine coverage rats in a large West Coast health maintenance organizationRobert L Davis
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 22:657-8. 2003..We evaluated the effect of introduction of a combined hepatitis B-Haemophilus influenzae b vaccine on vaccine coverage rates in a large health maintenance organization and found a modest improvement in up-to-date immunization status... - Risks of congenital malformations and perinatal events among infants exposed to calcium channel and beta-blockers during pregnancyRobert L Davis
Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Georgia, Southeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30305, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 20:138-45. 2011..We used population-based data from 5 HMOs to study risks for perinatal complications and congenital defects among infants exposed in-utero... - Safety of thimerosal-containing vaccines: a two-phased study of computerized health maintenance organization databasesThomas Verstraeten
Epidemic Intelligence Service Program, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Pediatrics 112:1039-48. 2003..Conflicting results were found at different HMOs for certain outcomes. For resolving the conflicting findings, studies with uniform neurodevelopmental assessments of children with a range of cumulative thimerosal exposures are needed... - Early thimerosal exposure and neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 yearsWilliam W Thompson
National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
N Engl J Med 357:1281-92. 2007..It has been hypothesized that early exposure to thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative used in vaccines and immune globulin preparations, is associated with neuropsychological deficits in children... - Influenza vaccination coverage among adult solid organ transplant recipients at three health maintenance organizations, 1995-2005Kalynne Harris
Immunization Safety Office, Office of the Chief Science Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 27:2335-41. 2009..Efforts to understand barriers to vaccination and increase education of physicians managing patients while awaiting and after receipt of transplant are needed... - Epidemiology of anaphylaxis among children and adolescents enrolled in a health maintenance organizationKari Bohlke
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101-1448, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 113:536-42. 2004..Anaphylaxis in this population was frequently diagnosed as another related condition, and the basis and implications of diagnostic practices in this disorder warrant further exploration... - Vaccines and changes in coagulation parameters in adults on chronic warfarin therapy: a cohort studyMichael L Jackson
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA 98101 1448, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 16:790-6. 2007..We sought to determine whether vaccinations are associated with changes in International Normalized Ratio (INR) in persons on long-term warfarin therapy... - Live attenuated measles and mumps viral strain-containing vaccines and hearing loss: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), United States, 1990--2003Armenak Asatryan
Science Applications International Corporation and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Vaccine 26:1166-72. 2008..Thus, HL following MMCV has been reported in the literature and to the VAERS. Further studies are needed to better understand if there is a causal relationship between MMCV and HL... - Hepatitis B vaccine and risk of autoimmune thyroid disease: a Vaccine Safety Datalink studyOnchee Yu
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA 98101 1448, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 16:736-45. 2007..To test the hypothesis that hepatitis B vaccine increases the risk of ATD, we conducted a case-control study, within the Vaccine Safety Datalink project... - Risk of anaphylaxis after vaccination of children and adolescentsKari Bohlke
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington 98101 1448, USA
Pediatrics 112:815-20. 2003..To quantify the risk of anaphylaxis after vaccination of children and adolescents... - Compliance with the recommendations for 2 doses of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in children less than 9 years of age receiving influenza vaccine for the first time: a Vaccine Safety Datalink studyLisa A Jackson
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 118:2032-7. 2006..We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study to evaluate compliance with the 2-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine recommendations... - Risks of congenital malformations and perinatal events among infants exposed to antidepressant medications during pregnancyRobert L Davis
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 16:1086-94. 2007..To evaluate risks for perinatal complications and congenital defects among infants exposed in utero to antidepressants... - In nonrandomized studies, can we use a person's preimmunization experience to help gauge the safety and efficacy of immunization?Noel S Weiss
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:395-6. 2002 - Potential medication dosing errors in outpatient pediatricsHeather A McPhillips
Department of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, and the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, 98105, USA
J Pediatr 147:761-7. 2005..To determine the prevalence of potential dosing errors of medication dispensed to children for 22 common medications... - Factors that are associated with parental acceptance of human papillomavirus vaccines: a randomized intervention study of written information about HPVAmanda F Dempsey
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pediatrics 117:1486-93. 2006.... - Predictors of incident heart failure in a large insured population: a one million person-year follow-up studyAbhinav Goyal
Emory Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Circ Heart Fail 3:698-705. 2010..Studies on the incidence and predictors of heart failure (HF) are often restricted to elderly persons or identify only inpatient cases... - Childhood vaccinations and risk of asthmaFrank Destefano
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 21:498-504. 2002..The weak associations for Hib and hepatitis B vaccines seem to be at least partially accounted for by health care utilization or information bias... - Placing the risk of seizures with pediatric vaccines in a clinical contextRobert L Davis
Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Paediatr Drugs 5:717-22. 2003..We conclude by discussing the introduction of new vaccines, and note that, even with widespread use, it will take many years before we can be knowledgeable about the risk of rare events with these newly licensed products... - A public health approach to pharmacogenomics and gene-based diagnostic testsRobert L Davis
Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies, Seattle, Washington, USA
Pharmacogenomics 7:331-7. 2006.... - Use of a respiratory clinical score among different providersLenna L Liu
Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98115 8160, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 37:243-8. 2004..By standardizing respiratory assessments, use of a clinical score may facilitate care coordination by physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists and thereby improve care of children hospitalized with asthma and bronchiolitis... - Outcomes of prenatal antidepressant exposureGregory E Simon
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Avenue 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:2055-61. 2002..This study evaluated the effects of prenatal antidepressant exposure on perinatal outcomes, congenital malformations, and early growth and development... - FDA drug prescribing warnings: is the black box half empty or half full?Anita K Wagner
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 15:369-86. 2006..The purpose of the present study was to assess the frequency of use of BBW medications in ambulatory care and prescribing compliance with BBW recommendations... - Early detection of adverse drug events within population-based health networks: application of sequential testing methodsJeffrey S Brown
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 16:1275-84. 2007.... - Is there a safe age for vaccinating infants with tetravalent rhesus-human reassortant rotavirus vaccine?Paul M Gargiullo
J Infect Dis 194:1793-4; author reply 1794-5. 2006 - Intussusception and oral poliovirus vaccination: is there an association?Su Ting T Li
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817 5177, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:576-81. 2004..1, 95% confidence interval: 0.5, 2.2). However, to address the hypothesis that risk of intussusception is related to receipt of a particular dose of OPV, a larger study would be required... - Safety of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in children 6 to 23 months oldSimon J Hambidge
Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
JAMA 296:1990-7. 2006..Beginning with the winter season of 2004-2005, influenza vaccination has been recommended for all children 6 to 23 months old in the United States. However, its safety in young children has not been adequately studied in large populations... - Safety of the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine among children: a population-based studyEric K France
Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:1031-6. 2004..To our knowledge, there are no published population-based studies on the safety of the inactivated trivalent influenza vaccine among children... - Prescription drug use in pregnancySusan E Andrade
Meyers Primary Care Institute Fallon Healthcare System and University of Massachusetts Medical School, 630 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:398-407. 2004..The purpose of this study was to provide information on the prevalence of the use of prescription drugs among pregnant women in the United States... - Acute intussusception in infants and children as an adverse event following immunization: case definition and guidelines of data collection, analysis, and presentationJulie E Bines
Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Vaccine 22:569-74. 2004 - Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in childrenRobert L Davis
N Engl J Med 350:84-5; author reply 84-5. 2004 - Baseline laboratory monitoring of cardiovascular medications in elderly health maintenance organization enrolleesSteven R Simon
HMO Research Network Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics and Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:2165-9. 2005..To identify correlates of laboratory monitoring errors in elderly health maintenance organization (HMO) members at the initiation of therapy with cardiovascular medications... - Laboratory monitoring of drugs at initiation of therapy in ambulatory careMarsha A Raebel
Kaiser Permanente of Colorado Clinical Research Unit, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:1120-6. 2005..The objective of this study was to describe laboratory monitoring among ambulatory patients dispensed medications for which laboratory testing is recommended at therapy initiation... - Laboratory monitoring of potassium and creatinine in ambulatory patients receiving angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockersMarsha A Raebel
Kaiser Permanente of Colorado Clinical Research Unit and School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 16:55-64. 2007..The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to assess creatinine and potassium monitoring and characteristics associated with monitoring among patients dispensed ACEi or ARB... - Use of prescription medications with a potential for fetal harm among pregnant womenSusan E Andrade
Meyers Primary Care Institute University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Fallon Foundation, and Fallon Community Health Plan, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 15:546-54. 2006..To estimate the prevalence of use of prescription drugs with a potential for fetal harm among pregnant women in the United States... - Potentially inappropriate medication use by elderly persons in U.S. Health Maintenance Organizations, 2000-2001Steven R Simon
HMO Research Network, Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:227-32. 2005..To determine rates of potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly persons in managed care plans in the United States in 2000-2001... - Monitoring of drugs with a narrow therapeutic range in ambulatory careMarsha A Raebel
Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente of Colorado, PO Box 378066, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:268-74. 2006.... - Real-time vaccine safety surveillance for the early detection of adverse eventsTracy A Lieu
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 45:S89-95. 2007..Sequential testing procedures are needed to detect vaccine or drug safety problems as soon as possible after introduction...