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Present	Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Medicine and Health Sciences, Public Health, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics

The Effect of Cluster Size Variability on Statistical Power in ...

PLoS ONE (2015)

Stephen A. Lauer, Ken P. Kleinman and Nicholas G. Reich

The frequency of cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) in peer-reviewed literature has increased exponentially over the past two decades. CRTs are a ...

Multicenter Evaluation of a Novel Surveillance Paradigm for Complications of ...

PLoS One (2011)

Michael Klompas, Yosef Khan, Kenneth Kleinman, R.Scott Evans, et al.

BACKGROUND: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) surveillance is time consuming, subjective, inaccurate, and inconsistently predicts outcomes. Shifting surveillance from pneumonia in particular ...

Automated Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Hospitals: A Retrospective ...

PLoS Medicine (2010)

Susan S. Huang, Deborah S. Yokoe, John Stelling, Hilary Placzek, et al.

BACKGROUND: Detection of outbreaks of hospital-acquired infections is often based on simple rules, such as the occurrence of three new ...

Evidence that pneumococcal serotype replacement in Massachusetts following conjugate vaccination ...

Epidemics (2010)

William P. Hanage, Jonathan A. Finkelstein, Susan S. Huang, Stephen I. Pelton, et al.

Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) has been reduced in the US following conjugate vaccination (PCV7) targeting seven pneumococcal serotypes in 2000. ...

Use of outcomes to evaluate surveillance systems for bioterrorist attacks

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2010)

Kerry A McBrien, Ken P Kleinman, Allyson M Abrams and Lisa A Prosser

Background Syndromic surveillance systems can potentially be used to detect a bioterrorist attack earlier than traditional surveillance, by virtue of ...

Epidemiology and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus colonization in children ...

BMC Infectious Diseases (2009)

Grace M. Lee, Susan S. Huang, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Vriginia L. Hinrichsen, et al.

BACKGROUND: The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has risen dramatically in the U.S., particularly among children. Although Streptococcus ...

Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness

PLoS One (2009)

W. Katherine Yih, Kathryn S. Teates, Allyson Abrams, Ken Kleinman, et al.

BACKGROUND: Surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is important for guiding public health prevention programs to mitigate the morbidity ...

Weight gain in pregnancy and risk of maternal hyperglycemia

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2009)

Sharon J. Herring, Emily Oken, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Janet W. Rich-Edwards, et al.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine associations of weight gain from prepregnancy to glycemic screening with glucose ...

Physician responses to a community-level trial promoting judicious antibiotic use

Open Access Publications by UMass Chan Authors (2008)

Christopher J. Stille, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Ken P. Kleinman, Jamie B. Kotch, et al.

PURPOSE: In an environment of multiple campaigns promoting judicious antibiotic use in children, identification of effective strategies is important. We ...

Assessing the utility of public health surveillance using specificity, sensitivity ...

Statistics in Medicine (2008)

Ken P Kleinman and Allyson Abrams

In modern surveillance of public health, data may be reported in a timely fashion, and include spatial data on cases ...

Association between umbilical cord glucocorticoids and blood pressure at age ...

BMC Medicine (2008)

Susanna Y. Huh, Ruth Andrew, Janet W Rich-Edwards, Ken P. Kleinman, et al.

Background Animal data show that decreased activity of placental 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11β-HSD2), which potently inactivates glucocorticoids (e.g. cortisol) ...

Parental knowledge about antibiotic use: results of a cluster-randomized, multicommunity ...

Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) Publications (2007)

Susan S. Huang, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Ken P. Kleinman, Jamie B. Kotch, et al.

OBJECTIVE: The goal was to determine the impact of a community-wide educational intervention on parental misconceptions likely contributing to pediatric ...

A SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography (SMAC) package implemented with ...

International Journal of Health Geographics (2007)

Allyson M. Abrams and Ken P Kleinman

BACKGROUND: SaTScan is a software program written to implement the scan statistic; it can be used to find clusters in ...

Gestational weight gain and child adiposity at age 3 years

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2007)

Emily Oken, Elsie M. Taveras, Ken P. Kleinman, Janet W. Rich-Edwards, et al.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of gestational weight gain with child adiposity. STUDY DESIGN ...

Milk consumption and the prepubertal somatotropic axis

Nutrition Journal (2007)

Janet W. Rich-Edwards, Davaasambuu Ganmaa, Michael N. Pollak, Erika K. Nakamoto, et al.

Background Nutrients, hormones and growth factors in dairy foods may stimulate growth hormone (GH), insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), and ...

Sociodemographic predictors of antenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms among women ...

Clinical Research and National Children's Study (2006)

Janet W. Rich-Edwards, Ken P. Kleinman, Allyson Abrams, Bernard L. Harlow, et al.

OBJECTIVE: Data are scarce regarding the sociodemographic predictors of antenatal and postpartum depression. This study investigated whether race/ethnicity, age, finances, ...

Evaluating spatial surveillance: detection of known outbreaks in real data

Statistics in Medicine (2006)

Ken Kleinman, Allyson Abrams, W. Katherine Yih, Richard Platt, et al.

Since the anthrax attacks of October 2001 and the SARS outbreaks of recent years, there has been an increasing interest ...

Four different study designs to evaluate vaccine safety were equally ...

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2006)

Jason M. Glanz, David L. McClure, Stanley Xu, Simon J. Hambidge, et al.

OBJECTIVE: We conducted a simulation study to empirically compare four study designs [cohort, case-control, risk-interval, self-controlled case series (SCCS)] used ...

Group versus individual academic detailing to improve the use of ...

American Journal of Medicine (2005)

Steven R. Simon, Sumit R. Majumdar, Lisa A. Prosser, Susanne Salem-Schatz, et al.

Purpose To compare group versus individual academic detailing to increase diuretic or β-blocker use in hypertension. Methods We conducted a ...

Longitudinal Study of Birth Weight and Adult Body Mass Index ...

Ken Kleinman, Janet Rich-Edwards, Karin Michels, Meir Stampfer, et al.

Objectives To determine whether birth weight and adult body size interact to predict coronary heart disease in women, as has ...

Maternal Fish Consumption, Hair Mercury, and Infant Cognition in a ...

Environmental Health Perspectives (2005)

Ken Kleinman, Emily Oken, Robert Wright, David Bellinger, et al.

Fish and other seafood may contain organic mercury but also beneficial nutrients such as n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. We endeavored ...

A generalized linear mixed models approach for detecting incident clusters ...

American Journal of Epidemiology (2004)

Kenneth Kleinman, Ross Lazarus and Richard Platt

Since the intentional dissemination of anthrax through the US postal system in the fall of 2001, there has been increased ...

Child care center policies and practices for management of ill ...

Ambulatory Pediatrics (2004)

Jennifer F. Friedman, Grace M. Lee, Ken P. Kleinman and Jonathan A. Finkelstein

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to 1) describe child care staff knowledge and beliefs regarding upper respiratory tract ...

Maternal age and other predictors of newborn blood pressure

Journal of Pediatrics (2004)

Matthew Gillman, Janet W Rich-Edwards, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Ellice S Lieberman, et al.

Objective To investigate perinatal predictors of newborn blood pressure. Study design Among 1059 mothers and their newborn infants participating in ...

A Nearly Continuous Measure of Birth Weight for Gestational Age ...

BMC Pediatrics (2003)

Ken Kleinman, Emily Oken, Janet Rich-Edwards and Matthew Gillman

Background Fully understanding the determinants and sequelae of fetal growth requires a continuous measure of birth weight adjusted for gestational ...