Dr. Deborah Stephanie Yokoe MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
75 Francis St Brigham And Womens H Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Deborah Yokoe is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Yokoe specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1985
University of California 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Using automated pharmacy records to assess the management of tuberculosis.
- Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination.
- Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients.
- Admission-specific chronic disease scores as alternative predictors of surgical site infection for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Impact of routine intensive care unit surveillance cultures and resultant barrier precautions on hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
- Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care units.
- Improving the assessment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci by routine screening.
- Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals.
- Improving patient safety through infection control: a new healthcare imperative.
- Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals.
- Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals.
- Clinical risk factors for severe Clostridium difficile-associated disease.
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