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Switch therapy in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: tigecycline vs. levofloxacinJulio A Ramirez
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
BMC Infect Dis 12:159. 2012..This analysis compares switch therapy using tigecycline versus levofloxacin in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)...- Development and implementation of a performance improvement project in adult intensive care units: overview of the Improving Medicine Through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (IMPACT-HAP) studyJulie E Mangino
The Ohio State University, 410 West 10th Ave, N 1150 Doan Hall Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Crit Care 15:R38. 2011..Our objectives were to develop and implement the project, and to assess compliance with quality indicators in adults admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) with HAP, VAP, or HCAP... - Changing needs of community-acquired pneumoniaJULIO ALBERTO RAMIREZ
Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, KY 40202, USA
J Antimicrob Chemother 66:iii3-9. 2011..pneumoniae and MRSA are needed for the management of patients with CAP... 
The pneumonia severity index and the CRB-65 in cancer patients with community-acquired pneumoniaS Aliberti
Dipartimento Toraco polmonare e Cardio circolatorio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 13:1550-6. 2009..The ability of the pneumonia severity index (PSI) and the CRB-65 to identify patients with low vs. high risk for mortality among cancer patients with CAP has not been evaluated...
Acute myocardial infarction in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumoniaJulio Ramirez
Divisions of Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville and Veterans Administration, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA
Clin Infect Dis 47:182-7. 2008..The objective of this study was to investigate the association of AMI with the severity of pneumonia at hospitalization and clinical failure during hospitalization among patients with CAP...- Fostering international multicenter collaborative research: the CAPO ProjectJ A Ramirez
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 11:1062-5. 2007..Investigators may be interested in joining the CAPO research team or applying the CAPO model for international collaboration to other areas of clinical research... - Controlling multiple-drug-resistant organisms at the hospital levelJulio A Ramirez
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, 512 South Hancock Street, Carmichael Building, Room 208 D, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
Expert Opin Pharmacother 7:1449-55. 2006..Without achieving these three goals, hospitals will not be able to control the spread of MDR organisms... - Worldwide perspective of the quality of care provided to hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: results from the CAPO international cohort studyJulio A Ramirez
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA
Semin Respir Crit Care Med 26:543-52. 2005..New interventions to advance quality of care are necessary to improve clinical and economic outcomes in CAP... - Multicenter, multinational observational studies: a new approach to studying community-acquired pneumoniaJulio Ramirez
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 323 East Chestnut, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
Respir Care Clin N Am 11:35-44. 2005..By closing the gap between clinical research and clinical practice, the management of patients with CAP will improve worldwide... - Processes of care for community-acquired pneumoniaJulio A Ramirez
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, 512 South Hancock Street, Carmichael Building, Room 208 D, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
Infect Dis Clin North Am 18:843-59. 2004..Having an unambiguous action plan helps to develop process-of-care indicators and to educate healthcare workers. Improving processes of care is a secure way to improve outcomes in hospitalized patients with CAP... - Community-acquired pneumonia in adultsJulio A Ramirez
Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Medicine Center, Louisville, KY, USA
Prim Care 30:155-71. 2003..The use of pneumococcal vaccine, influenza vaccine, and smoking-cessation programs is an important strategy to prevent CAP... - Early switch from intravenous to oral antibiotics in hospitalized patients with bacteremic community-acquired Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumoniaJ A Ramirez
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:848-50. 2001..The identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia is considered by some investigators to be an exclusion criterion for early switch from intravenous to oral therapy... - Interactions of Chlamydia pneumoniae with human endothelial cellsJ T Summersgill
Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
J Infect Dis 181:S479-82. 2000..pneumoniae can infect human endothelial cells and induce the expression of many molecules that are important mediators of atherogenesis including cytokines, adhesion molecules, chemokines, and molecules with procoagulant activity... - Signal transduction during Legionella pneumophila entry into human monocytesP Y Coxon
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Infect Immun 66:2905-13. 1998..Therefore, the tyrosine-induced phosphorylation observed during opsonized L. pneumophila entry is not a virulence-associated event... - Managing antiinfective therapy of community-acquired pneumonia in the hospital setting: focus on switch therapyJ A Ramirez
Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky 40292, USA
Pharmacotherapy 21:79S-82S. 2001..Universal use of switch therapy in the United States could result in the total reduction of about 440,000 hospital days annually and an overall savings of $400 million... - Erythrocytic glutathione and plasma cysteine status of human immunodeficient patientsC A Lang
Department of Biochemistry, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 226:866-9. 2001..However, the Cys contents were higher in patients than in controls (P < 0.05). These findings demonstrated that HIV patients have normal erythrocytic GSH concentrations and supranormal Cys levels... - The role of neutropenia on outcomes of cancer patients with community-acquired pneumoniaS Aliberti
Institute of Respiratory Disease, University of Milan, Ospedale Maggiore Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
Eur Respir J 33:142-7. 2009..30). Lack of neutropenia, during the initial evaluation of a cancer community-acquired pneumonia patient, should not be considered an indicator of better clinical outcome... - Duration of antibiotic therapy in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumoniaS Aliberti
Dipartimento Toraco polmonare e Cardio circolatorio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Eur Respir J 36:128-34. 2010..Duration of therapy is not influenced by either the severity of disease at the time of hospitalisation or the clinical response to therapy... - Inhibition of oxidative burst and chemotaxis in human phagocytes by Legionella pneumophila zinc metalloproteaseN N Sahney
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA
J Med Microbiol 50:517-25. 2001..These results suggest that the L. pneumophila Msp protease alters human phagocyte functional responses significantly and may contribute to the pathogenesis of Legionnaires' disease... - Characterization of Chlamydia pneumoniae persistence in HEp-2 cells treated with gamma interferonL G Pantoja
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
Infect Immun 69:7927-32. 2001..Ultrastructural analysis of IFN-gamma-treated C. pneumoniae revealed atypical inclusions containing large reticulatate-like aberrant bodies with no evidence of redifferentiation into elementary bodies... - Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis at time of hospitalization predict mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumoniaMehdi Mirsaeidi
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA
Chest 137:416-20. 2010..The objectives of this study were to evaluate if abnormal platelet count in hospitalized patients with CAP was associated with 30-day mortality and to compare platelet count and leukocyte count as predictors of 30-day mortality...