Dr. E. Yoko Furuya M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
622 W 168th St New York NY, 10032About
Dr. E. Furuya is an infectious disease specialist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Furuya 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Creating an ontology for an antibiotic prescribing decision support system.
- Staffing and structure of infection prevention and control programs.
- Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia: factors correlated with clinical and microbiologic outcomes.
- Central line bundle implementation in US intensive care units and impact on bloodstream infections.
- Challenges of applying the SHEA/HICPAC metrics for multidrug-resistant organisms to a real-world setting.
- Impact of the ventilator bundle on ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care unit.
- Using electronically available inpatient hospital data for research.
- Post-admission glucose levels are associated with healthcare-associated bloodstream infections and pneumonia in hospitalized patients with diabetes.
- Long-term survival and healthcare utilization outcomes attributable to sepsis and pneumonia.
- Clinicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding infections with multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli in intensive care units.
- Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia differ depending on the control group chosen.
- Gender differences in risk of bloodstream and surgical site infections.
- Impact of electronic surveillance on isolation practices.
- Impact of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic on healthcare workers at a tertiary care center in New York City.
- Comparison of 3 severity criteria for Clostridium difficile infection.
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