Dr. Mari M Kitahata MD
Internist
325 9th Ave Seattle WA, 98104About
Dr. Kitahata is Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research Core of the UW Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the PI of the UW HIV Cohort, a longitudinal observational study of ...
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1987
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Physician experience in the care of HIV-infected persons is associated with earlier adoption of new antiretroviral therapy.
- Diabetes case identification methods applied to electronic medical record systems: their use in HIV-infected patients.
- A single-item measure of health-related quality-of-life for HIV-infected patients in routine clinical care.
- Antiretroviral medications associated with elevated blood pressure among patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Developing a relational XML schema for sharing HIV clinical data.
- Routine collection of patient-reported outcomes in an HIV clinic setting: the first 100 patients.
- Amprenavir and didanosine are associated with declining kidney function among patients receiving tenofovir.
- Blood pressure and antiretroviral therapy.
- Initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy with newer protease inhibitors is associated with better survival compared to first-generation protease inhibitors or nevirapine.
- The effect of mental illness, substance use, and treatment for depression on the initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected individuals.
- Persistent Kaposi sarcoma in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: characterizing the predictors of clinical response.
- Tenofovir-associated decline in renal function.
- Independent clinical predictors of impaired response to hepatitis B vaccination in HIV-infected persons.
- Lipoatrophy among HIV-infected patients is associated with higher levels of depression than lipohypertrophy.
- Three years experience with the implementation of a networked electronic medical record in Haiti.
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