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Matthew H. Samore

Matthew H. Samore

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Medicine

D-Index
91
Citations
36627
World Ranking
11616
National Ranking
5958

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Matthew H. Samore is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, primarily focusing on infectious diseases and epidemiology. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including infectious diseases, general health professions, epidemiology, applied microbiology and biotechnology, and modeling and simulation.

The main topics covered in their work include antibiotic use and resistance, patient satisfaction in healthcare, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, research on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, and nosocomial infections in intensive care units.

Matthew H. Samore has published in various well-known academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Lindsay T. Keegan
  • McKenna Nevers
  • Karim Khader
  • Damon Toth
  • Yue Zhang

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and impact of their research:

  • National Estimates of Healthcare Costs Associated With Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections Among Hospitalized Patients in the United States (2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Incidence and Outcomes Associated With Clostridium difficile Infections (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • Empirical Anti-MRSA vs Standard Antibiotic Therapy and Risk of 30-Day Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia (2020, JAMA Internal Medicine)
  • Mortality, Length of Stay, and Healthcare Costs Associated With Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections Among Elderly Hospitalized Patients in the United States (2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Portable Automated Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections Using Natural Language Processing (2020, Annals of Surgery)

Matthew H. Samore is recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

    Tamar F. Barlam;Tamar F. Barlam;Sara E. Cosgrove;Lilian M. Abbo;Conan MacDougall

  • Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

    Marc Lipsitch;Ted Cohen;Ben Cooper;James M. Robins

  • Clarifying adverse drug events: a clinician's guide to terminology, documentation, and reporting

    Jonathan R. Nebeker;Paul Barach;Matthew H. Samore

  • Prolonged Antibiotic Prophylaxis After Cardiovascular Surgery and Its Effect on Surgical Site Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance

    Stephan Harbarth;Matthew H. Samore;Debi Lichtenberg;Yehuda Carmeli

  • Hypersensitivity Cases Associated With Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents: A Review of Available Cases From the Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) Project

    Jonathan R. Nebeker;Jonathan R. Nebeker;Renu Virmani;Charles L. Bennett;Charles L. Bennett;Jennifer M. Hoffman;Jennifer M. Hoffman

  • Emergence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Comparison of Risks Associated with Different Antipseudomonal Agents

    Yehuda Carmeli;Nicolas Troillet;George M. Eliopoulos;Matthew H. Samore

  • Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance: A Population Perspective

    Marc Lipsitch;Matthew H. Samore

  • Hazard ratio in clinical trials.

    Spotswood L. Spruance;Julia E. Reid;Michael Grace;Matthew Samore

  • Intervention to Reduce Transmission of Resistant Bacteria in Intensive Care

    W. Charles Huskins;Charmaine M. Huckabee;Naomi P. O’Grady;Patrick Murray

  • Effects of protease inhibitors on hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and lipodystrophy: a 5-year cohort study.

    Sotirios Tsiodras;Christos Mantzoros;Christos Mantzoros;Scott Hammer;Matthew Samore

  • An Epidemiological Investigation of a Sustained High Rate of Pediatric Parapneumonic Empyema: Risk Factors and Microbiological Associations

    Carrie L. Byington;La Shonda Y. Spencer;Timothy A. Johnson;Andrew T. Pavia

  • Effects of Body Size and Body Composition on Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

    Srinivasan Beddhu;Lisa M. Pappas;Nirupama Ramkumar;Matthew Samore

  • Health and economic outcomes of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Yehuda Carmeli;Nicolas Troillet;Adolf W. Karchmer;Matthew H. Samore

  • Vital Signs: Improving Antibiotic Use Among Hospitalized Patients

    Scott Fridkin;James Baggs;Ryan Fagan;Shelley Magill

  • Clinical and molecular epidemiology of sporadic and clustered cases of nosocomial Clostridium difficile diarrhea.

    Matthew H Samore;Lata Venkataraman;Paola C DeGirolami;Robert D Arbeit

  • Primary symptomless colonisation by Clostridium difficile and decreased risk of subsequent diarrhoea

    Janet K Shim;Stuart Johnson;Matthew H Samore;Donna Z Bliss

  • Epidemics of Diarrhea Caused by a Clindamycin-Resistant Strain of Clostridium difficile in Four Hospitals

    Stuart Johnson;Matthew H. Samore;Kylie A. Farrow;George E. Killgore

  • Antimicrobial resistance determinants and future control.

    Stéphan Juergen Harbarth;Matthew H Samore

  • Opioid-Related Adverse Drug Events in Surgical Hospitalizations: Impact on Costs and Length of Stay

    Gary M Oderda;Qayyim Said;R Scott Evans;Gregory J Stoddard

  • Effects of Protease Inhibitors on Hyperglycemia, Hyperlipidemia, and Lipodystrophy

    Sotirios Tsiodras;Christos Mantzoros;Scott Hammer;Matthew Samore

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Bidwell Goetz
Matthew Bidwell Goetz University of California, Los Angeles
Yehuda Carmeli
Yehuda Carmeli Tel Aviv University
Tom Greene
Tom Greene University of Utah
Charlene R. Weir
Charlene R. Weir University of Utah
Eli N. Perencevich
Eli N. Perencevich University of Iowa
Curtis J. Donskey
Curtis J. Donskey Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Adolf W. Karchmer
Adolf W. Karchmer Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Stéphan Juergen Harbarth
Stéphan Juergen Harbarth University of Geneva
Dale N. Gerding
Dale N. Gerding Veterans Health Administration
John A. Jernigan
John A. Jernigan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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