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| GABRIEL ESCOBARSummaryAffiliation: Kaiser Permanente Country: USA Publications
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Early detection of impending physiologic deterioration among patients who are not in intensive care: development of predictive models using data from an automated electronic medical recordGabriel J Escobar
Hospital Operations Research, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Hosp Med 7:388-95. 2012..Ward patients who experience unplanned transfer to intensive care units have excess morbidity and mortality...
A randomized comparison of home visits and hospital-based group follow-up visits after early postpartum dischargeG J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Perinatal Research Unit Division of Research, Oakland, California, USA
Pediatrics 108:719-27. 2001....
Five-year neurodevelopmental outcome of neonatal dehydrationGabriel J Escobar
Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
J Pediatr 151:127-33, 133.e1. 2007..To determine the long-term outcome of neonatal dehydration...- Short-term outcomes of infants born at 35 and 36 weeks gestation: we need to ask more questionsGabriel J Escobar
Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Semin Perinatol 30:28-33. 2006..Newborns who are 35 to 36 weeks gestation comprise 7.0% of all live births and 58.3% of all premature infants in the United States. They have been studied much less than very low birth weight infants... - Rehospitalisation after birth hospitalisation: patterns among infants of all gestationsG J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, 2000 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Arch Dis Child 90:125-31. 2005..To analyse rehospitalisation of newborns of all gestations... - Richardson score predicts short-term adverse respiratory outcomes in newborns >/=34 weeks gestationGabriel J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, California, USA
J Pediatr 145:754-60. 2004..To develop a model to predict which newborns >/=34 weeks gestation with respiratory distress will die or will require prolonged (>3 days) assisted ventilation... - Unstudied infants: outcomes of moderately premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unitG J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 91:F238-44. 2006..Newborns of 30-34 weeks gestation comprise 3.9% of all live births in the United States and 32% of all premature infants. They have been studied much less than very low birthweight infants... - Risk adjusting community-acquired pneumonia hospital outcomes using automated databasesGabriel J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 2000 Broadway, 2nd Fl, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 14:158-66. 2008.... - Risk-adjusting hospital inpatient mortality using automated inpatient, outpatient, and laboratory databasesGabriel J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Systems Research Initiative and Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 46:232-9. 2008..To develop a risk-adjustment methodology that maximizes the use of automated physiology and diagnosis data from the time period preceding hospitalization... - Rehospitalization for neonatal dehydration: a nested case-control studyGabriel J Escobar
Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:155-61. 2002..To determine the incidence of neonatal dehydration leading to rehospitalization, whether clinical and health services data could predict its occurrence, and the outcome of dehydrated infants... - Intra-hospital transfers to a higher level of care: contribution to total hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) mortality and length of stay (LOS)Gabriel J Escobar
Hospital Operations Research, Division of Research, Oakland, California, USA
J Hosp Med 6:74-80. 2011..However, these findings have been based on single-center studies or studies that employ ICU admissions as the denominator... - Recurrent wheezing in the third year of life among children born at 32 weeks' gestation or later: relationship to laboratory-confirmed, medically attended infection with respiratory syncytial virus during the first year of lifeGabriel J Escobar
Division of Research, Systems Research Initiative and Perinatal Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:915-22. 2010..To quantify the relationship between recurrent wheezing (RW) in the third year of life and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, prematurity, and neonatal oxygen exposure... - Perinatal substance abuse intervention in obstetric clinics decreases adverse neonatal outcomesMary Anne Armstrong
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
J Perinatol 23:3-9. 2003..The babies of SAT women did as well as control infants on rates of assisted ventilation, low birth weight, and preterm delivery. They had lower rates of these three neonatal outcomes than infants of either SA or S women... - Increased prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus among women with diagnosed polycystic ovary syndrome: a population-based studyJoan C Lo
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, 94612-2304, USA
Diabetes Care 29:1915-7. 2006 - Risk factors for developing apnea after immunization in the neonatal intensive care unitNicola P Klein
Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Studies Center, 1 Kaiser Plaza, 16th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Pediatrics 121:463-9. 2008..Among hospitalized NICU infants, preimmunization apnea is a well-recognized predictor of postimmunization apnea. However, predictors for postimmunization apnea among NICU infants without preimmunization apnea have not been investigated... - Effect of choice of estimation method on inter-hospital mortality rate comparisonsPatricia Kipnis
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Management, Information and Analysis, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Med Care 48:458-65. 2010..To evaluate and compare the use of 6 different methods for calculating expected mortality rates and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) when performing interhospital mortality rate comparisons... - Using drink size to talk about drinking during pregnancy: a randomized clinical trial of Early Start PlusMary Anne Armstrong
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Soc Work Health Care 48:90-103. 2009..No differences between ES and ESP were statistically significant. ESP provides clinicians with an innovative assessment tool that creates open dialogue about drinking during pregnancy... - Outcomes among newborns with total serum bilirubin levels of 25 mg per deciliter or moreThomas B Newman
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
N Engl J Med 354:1889-900. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: When treated with phototherapy or exchange transfusion, total serum bilirubin levels in the range included in this study were not associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants born at or near term... - What have we learned from observational studies on neonatal sepsis?Gabriel J Escobar
Perinatal Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 6:S138-45. 2005..To assess how observational studies on neonatal sepsis can help define the knowledge base required for neonatal randomized, clinical trials... - Revalidation of the Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology in the Vermont Oxford NetworkJohn A F Zupancic
Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Rose Building, Room 318, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 119:e156-63. 2007.... - Incorporation of physiological trend and interaction effects in neonatal severity of illness scores: an experiment using a variant of the Richardson scoreMichael Kuzniewicz
University of California San Francisco, Division of Neonatology, 533 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Intensive Care Med 33:1602-8. 2007..To evaluate whether physiological trends and interaction terms could enhance predictive ability in a variant of the Richardson Score... - Racial differences in the use of respiratory medications in premature infants after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unitScott A Lorch
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Pediatr 151:604-10, 610.e1. 2007.... - Risk factors for severe hyperbilirubinemia among infants with borderline bilirubin levels: a nested case-control studyMichael W Kuzniewicz
Division of Neonatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Pediatr 153:234-40. 2008..To estimate the effect of phototherapy and other predictors on the risk of total serum bilirubin (TSB) >or= 25 mg/dL in infants with a TSB of 17 to 22.9 mg/dL at age >or= 48 hours... - Factors influencing parental satisfaction with neonatal intensive care among the families of moderately premature infantsMarie C McCormick
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 121:1111-8. 2008..The goal was to examine the factors influencing parental satisfaction with neonatal intensive care for moderately premature infants in 10 hospitals in Massachusetts and California... - Place of birth and variations in management of late preterm ("near-term") infantsMarie C McCormick
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Semin Perinatol 30:44-7. 2006..The purpose of this study is to characterize variations in management late preterm infants because such variations in such a large group of neonates would have economic and health implications... - Phototherapy use in jaundiced newborns in a large managed care organization: do clinicians adhere to the guideline?Lee R Atkinson
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Pediatrics 111:e555-61. 2003..The purpose of this study was to examine adherence to the guideline in a large managed care organization... - Infants with bilirubin levels of 30 mg/dL or more in a large managed care organizationThomas B Newman
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Pediatrics 111:1303-11. 2003..To describe the incidence, etiology, treatment, and outcome of newborns with total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels >or=30 mg/dL (513 micro mol/L)... - Clinician support and psychosocial risk factors associated with breastfeeding discontinuationElsie M Taveras
Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program, Children s Hospital of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 112:108-15. 2003.... - Rehospitalization in the first year of life among infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasiaVincent C Smith
Department of Neonatalogy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Pediatr 144:799-803. 2004..To describe rates and identify risk factors for rehospitalization during the first year of life among infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)... - Jaundice noted in the first 24 hours after birth in a managed care organizationThomas B Newman
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of California, San Francisco, Campus Box 0560, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:1244-50. 2002..To investigate the significance of jaundice noted in the first 24 hours after birth in a community setting... - Combining clinical risk factors with serum bilirubin levels to predict hyperbilirubinemia in newbornsThomas B Newman
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:113-9. 2005.... - Maternal ethnicity, paternal ethnicity, and parental ethnic discordance: predictors of preeclampsiaAaron B Caughey
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
Obstet Gynecol 106:156-61. 2005..To examine the association of maternal and paternal ethnicity as well as parental ethnic discordance with preeclampsia... - Trends in severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia rates between 1994 and 2002Vincent C Smith
Department of Neonatology, Rose 318, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Pediatr 146:469-73. 2005..To examine temporal trends in the rates of severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) between 1994 and 2002... - Effect of the systemic inflammatory response on biochemical markers of neonatal bacterial infection: a fresh look at old confoundersGabriel J Escobar
Clin Chem 49:21-2. 2003 - Neonatal intensive care unit census influences discharge of moderately preterm infantsJochen Profit
Harvard Newborn Medicine Program, Children s Hospital Boston and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 119:314-9. 2007..The decision to discharge should occur independent of unit census. We evaluated the impact of unit census on the decision to discharge moderately preterm infants... - What is the best measure of maternal complications of term pregnancy: ongoing pregnancies or pregnancies delivered?Aaron B Caughey
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco 94080, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 189:1047-52. 2003..The purpose of this study was to determine whether rates of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy increase beyond 37 weeks of gestation and to address how best to analyze these rates... - Chorioamnionitis and cerebral palsy in term and near-term infantsYvonne W Wu
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
JAMA 290:2677-84. 2003..Half of all cases of cerebral palsy (CP) occur in term infants, for whom risk factors have not been clearly defined. Recent studies suggest a possible role of chorioamnionitis... - Maternal and obstetric complications of pregnancy are associated with increasing gestational age at termAaron B Caughey
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 196:155.e1-6. 2007..We sought to estimate when rates of maternal pregnancy complications increase beyond 37 weeks of gestation... - Correlates of prescription drug use during pregnancyErika Hyde Riley
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, Massachusetts 02120-1613, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 14:401-9. 2005.... - Perinatal stroke in children with motor impairment: a population-based studyYvonne W Wu
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0136, USA
Pediatrics 114:612-9. 2004..Most previous studies lack an appropriate control group and include only infants with symptoms in the newborn period. We set out to determine prenatal and perinatal risk factors for PAS... - Prepregnancy health status and the risk of preterm deliveryJennifer S Haas
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:58-63. 2005..Despite extensive evaluation, our understanding of risk factors for premature delivery is incomplete... - Hyperbilirubinemia benchmarkingThomas B Newman
Pediatrics 114:323. 2004
Research Grants
- Rapid Clinical Snapshots from the EMR among Pneumonia PatientsGABRIEL ESCOBAR; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Sepsis and Critical Illness in Babies > 34 Weeks GestationGABRIEL ESCOBAR; Fiscal Year: 2007..Our project builds on considerable development work conducted by investigators at Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research, the University of California, San Francisco, and the Harvard Newborn Medicine Program. ..
- HOW MUCH DOES SHE REALLY DRINK? AN HMO INTERVENTIONGABRIEL ESCOBAR; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Rapid Clinical Snapshots from the EMR among Pneumonia PatientsGabriel J Escobar; Fiscal Year: 2010....