Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Infectious Disease
Dr. Robert P. Gaynes, MD
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Dr. Robert P. Gaynes is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He attended University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has a rank of 10 in research and a 19 in primary care He received 6 awards: "Academy of Medical Educators--Executive Committee Member", "Curator, "Medical Treasures at Emory" Exhibition", "Outstanding Academic Title for Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases", "Shanta Zimmer Mentoring Award", "Fellow" and "M.D. with Honors". Robert Gaynes is also published. He has 100 publications published. The lastest publication: "Comparison of agar dilution, disk diffusion, MicroScan, and Vitek antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods to broth microdilution for detection of fluoroquinolone-...'
Publications
- Cepheid Xpert MRSA cycle threshold in discordant colonization results and as a quantitative measure of nasal colonization burden.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage in residents of Veterans Affairs long-term care facilities: role of antimicrobial exposure and MRSA a...
- Preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics.
- Hospitalization earlier than 1 year prior to admission as an additional risk factor for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization.
- A multicenter study on optimizing piperacillin-tazobactam use: lessons on why interventions fail.
- Measuring the scope and magnitude of hospital-associated infection in the United States: the value of prevalence surveys.
- Importance of bacterial burden among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers in a long-term care facility.
- Antimicrobial-associated risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection.
- Estimating health care-associated infections and deaths in U.S. hospitals, 2002.
- Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding piperacillin-tazobactam prescribing practices: results from a multicenter study.
- Monitoring patient safety in health care: building the case for surrogate measures.
- Effect of nurse staffing and antimicrobial-impregnated central venous catheters on the risk for bloodstream infections in intensive care units.
- Detection of postoperative surgical-site infections: comparison of health plan-based surveillance with hospital-based programs.
- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of carbapenems: multicenter validity testing and accuracy levels of five antimicrobial test methods for detecting resistance in En...
- Using automated health plan data to assess infection risk from coronary artery bypass surgery.
- Nurse staffing and health care-associated infections: Proceedings from a working group meeting.
- Nurse staffing and healthcare-associated infections: proceedings from a working group meeting.
- Improving benchmarks for surveillance by defining types of pediatric intensive care units.
- Characteristics of hospitals and infection control professionals participating in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System 1999.
- Nosocomial infections in HIV-infected patients: preliminary results from a multicenter surveillance system (1989-1995).
- Antimicrobial resistance in isolates from inpatients and outpatients in the United States: increasing importance of the intensive care unit.
- The contribution of antibiotic use on the frequency of antibiotic resistance in hospitals.
- Feeding back surveillance data to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
- Promoting quality through measurement of performance and response: prevention success stories.
- The impact of antimicrobial use on the emergence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in hospitals.
- Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia after coronary artery bypass graft operations.
- An outbreak of Mycobacterium terrae in clinical specimens associated with a hospital potable water supply.
- Isolation, characterization, and cloning of a plasmid-borne gene encoding a phosphotransferase that confers high-level amikacin resistance in enteric bacilli.
- Mediastinitis following coronary artery bypass surgery: a 3-year review.
- Hemodialysis-associated febrile episodes: surveillance before and after major alteration in the water treatment system.
- Methodology to evaluate a computer-based system for surveillance of hospital-acquired infections.
- Antibiotic resistance in ICUs: a multifaceted problem requiring a multifaceted solution.
- Meaningful interhospital comparisons of infection rates in intensive care units.
- Surveillance of antibiotic resistance: learning to live with bias.
- A cluster of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in an intensive care unit.
- Risk factors for mortality associated with enterococcal bloodstream infections.
- Severity of illness scoring systems to adjust nosocomial infection rates: a review and commentary.
- The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System: plans for the 1990s and beyond.
- Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Strategies to Prevent and Control the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial-Resistant Microorganisms in Hospitals. A challenge to hospital leadership.
- Nosocomial infections among neonates in high-risk nurseries in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Evolution of hospital participation in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System, 1986 to 1993.
- National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) semiannual report, May 1995. A report from the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System.
- Improving hospital-acquired infection rates: the CDC experience.
- Ciprofloxacin resistance among nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in the United States.
- Ceftazidime resistance among selected nosocomial gram-negative bacilli in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- An overview of nosocomial infections, including the role of the microbiology laboratory.
- Nosocomial infections in surgical patients in the United States, January 1986-June 1992. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System.
- Noncompliance with Universal Precautions Policy: why do physicians and nurses recap needles?
- Mechanism of aminoglycoside resistance among beta-lactam-resistant Escherichia coli in the United States.
- Illness with fatalities in premature infants: association with an intravenous vitamin E preparation, E-Ferol.
- Antibiotic-resistant flora in nursing home patients admitted to the hospital.
- A nursery outbreak of multiple-aminoglycoside-resistant Escherichia coli.
- Control of aminoglycoside resistance by barrier precautions.
- The role of host factors in an outbreak of necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum.
- National nosocomial infections surveillance system (NNIS): description of surveillance methods.
- Nosocomial infection rates in adult and pediatric intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Comparison of rates of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Nosocomial infections in elderly patients in the United States, 1986-1990. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Major trends in the microbial etiology of nosocomial infection.
- Secular trends in nosocomial primary bloodstream infections in the United States, 1980-1989. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- In vivo and in vitro conversion of des-1-Asp angiotensin I to angiotensin III.
- CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections, 1992: a modification of CDC definitions of surgical wound infections.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in U.S. hospitals, 1975-1991.
- Resistance to imipenem among selected gram-negative bacilli in the United States.
- Comparing nosocomial infection rates among surgical intensive-care units: the importance of separating cardiothoracic and general surgery intensive-care units.
- Accuracy of reporting nosocomial infections in intensive-care-unit patients to the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System: a pilot study.
- Antimicrobial use and resistance in eight US hospitals: complexities of analysis and modeling. Intensive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology Project and Nationa...
- Nosocomial infections in coronary care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Comparison of agar dilution, disk diffusion, MicroScan, and Vitek antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods to broth microdilution for detection of fluoroquinolone-...
- Nosocomial infections in pediatric intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units.
- A survey of methods used to detect nosocomial legionellosis among participants in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Determinants of vancomycin use in adult intensive care units in 41 United States hospitals.
- Surveillance of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in United States hospitals: project ICARE phase 2. Project Intensive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epide...
- Glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus: evaluation of a novel screening method and results of a survey of selected U.S. hospitals.
- Surgical-site infections and the NNIS SSI Risk Index: room for improvement.
- Practices to improve antimicrobial use at 47 US hospitals: the status of the 1997 SHEA/IDSA position paper recommendations. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of Amer...
- Surveillance of surgical-site infections: the world coming together?
- Nosocomial infections in combined medical-surgical intensive care units in the United States.
- Ability of laboratories to detect emerging antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial pathogens: a survey of project ICARE laboratories.
- Surgical-site infections (SSI) and the NNIS Basic SSI Risk Index, part II: room for improvement.
- Antimicrobial resistance prevalence rates in hospital antibiograms reflect prevalence rates among pathogens associated with hospital-acquired infections.
- Surgical site infection (SSI) rates in the United States, 1992-1998: the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System basic SSI risk index.
- The effect of vancomycin and third-generation cephalosporins on prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in 126 U.S. adult intensive care units.
- Surveillance of nosocomial infections: a fundamental ingredient for quality.
- Hospital-acquired infections in the United States. The importance of interhospital comparisons.
- Evidence of interhospital transmission of extended-spectrum beta-lactam-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States, 1986 to 1993. The National Nosocomial Inf...
- Temporal changes in prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in 23 US hospitals.
- Monitoring antimicrobial use and resistance: comparison with a national benchmark on reducing vancomycin use and vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
- Secular trend of hospital-acquired candidemia among intensive care unit patients in the United States during 1989-1999.
- Does antimicrobial resistance cluster in individual hospitals?
- Antimicrobial proficiency testing of National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System hospital laboratories.
- The impact of antimicrobial-resistant, health care-associated infections on mortality in the United States.
- Emerging trends in antibiotic use in US hospitals: quality, quantification and stewardship.
- Comparing bloodstream infection rates: the effect of indicator specifications in the evaluation of processes and indicators in infection control (EPIC) study.
- Infection surveillance and control programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs nursing home care units: a preliminary assessment.
Schools
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Academy of Medical Educators--Executive Committee Member
- Curator, "Medical Treasures at Emory" Exhibition
- Outstanding Academic Title for Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
- Shanta Zimmer Mentoring Award
- Fellow
- M.D. with Honors
Education
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University of Chicago -
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
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