Publications by authors named "Radhika Prakash Asrani"
Evaluating racial and ethnic disparities in antibiotic treatment for pneumonia patients in a major academic health system.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
December 2024
Objective: Examine the relationship between patients' race and prescriber antibiotic choice while accounting for differences in underlying illness and infection severity.
Design: Retrospective cohort analysis.
Setting: Acute care facilities within an academic healthcare system.
Objective: To examine the relationship between race and ethnicity and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) while accounting for inherent differences in CLABSI risk related to central venous catheter (CVC) type.
Design: Retrospective cohort analysis.
Setting: Acute care facilities within an academic healthcare system.
Article Synopsis
- - The study looks at how COVID-19 infection rates in different counties relate to the risk of serious infections caused by MRSA (a type of bacteria).
- - The findings indicate that the burden of COVID-19 impacts both hospital and community infections.
- - It was revealed that Black residents are around 60% more likely than White residents to experience these invasive infections linked to COVID-19.
Objective: To determine whether residing in a hospital bed that previously held an occupant with increases the risk of hospital-onset infection (HO-CDI).
Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, we used a real-time location system to track the movement of hospital beds in 2 academic hospitals from April 2018 to August 2019. We abstracted patient demographics, clinical characteristics, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results from the medical record.
Background: COVID-19 mitigation behaviors, such as wearing masks, maintaining social distancing, and practicing hand hygiene, have been and will remain vital to slowing the pandemic.
Objective: This study aims to describe the period prevalence of consistent mask-wearing, social distancing, and hand hygiene practices during the peak of COVID-19 incidence (August-December 2020) and just before COVID-19 vaccine availability, overall and in demographic subgroups.
Methods: We used baseline survey data from a nationwide household probability sample to generate weighted estimates of mitigation behaviors: wearing masks, maintaining social distancing, and practicing hand hygiene.
Study Objectives: Social support (SS) is associated with better health outcomes, including sleep health. However, the specific sources of SS that benefit sleep are unclear, and whether these associations vary by race/ethnicity or age is unknown. The aim of this study was to examine cross-sectional associations between sources of SS (number of friends, financial, church attendance, and emotional support) and self-reported short sleep duration (< 7 hours) overall and by race/ethnic groups and age among a representative sample.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The 'DSD Pathways' study was initiated to assess health status and patterns of care among people enrolled in large integrated healthcare systems and diagnosed with conditions comprising the broad category of disorders (differences) of sex development (DSD). The objectives of this communication are to describe methods of cohort ascertainment for two specific DSD conditions-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia with 46,XX karyotype (46,XX CAH) and complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS).
Participants: Using electronic health records we developed an algorithm that combined diagnostic codes, clinical notes, laboratory data and pharmacy records to assign each cohort candidate a 'strength-of-evidence' score supporting the diagnosis of interest.