Barbara W Trautner

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Department of Surgery, Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, TX Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Bay Pines, FL Department of Surgery, University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) and University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Center for Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

December 2020

Engaging patients and caregivers to establish priorities for the management of diabetic foot ulcers.

Authors:

Nader Zamani Jayer Chung Gina Evans-Hudnall Lindsey A Martin Ramyar Gilani Edward L Poythress Felicia Skelton-Dudley James S Huggins Barbara W Trautner Joseph L Mills

J Vasc Surg 2020 Sep 3. Epub 2020 Sep 3.

Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. Electronic address:

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

September 2020

Conditional reflex to urine culture: Evaluation of a diagnostic stewardship intervention within the Veterans' Affairs and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Practice-Based Research Network.

Authors:

Kimberly C Claeys Min Zhan Lisa Pineles Alison Lydecker Gosia Clore Michihiko Goto Surbhi Leekha Darren Linkin Charlesnika T Evans Barbara W Trautner Matthew B Goetz Jonathan D Baghdadi Eli N Perencevich Daniel J Morgan

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2021 Feb 25;42(2):176-181. Epub 2020 Aug 25.

Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

February 2021

Phage-Antibiotic Synergy Is Driven by a Unique Combination of Antibacterial Mechanism of Action and Stoichiometry.

Authors:

Carmen Gu Liu Sabrina I Green Lorna Min Justin R Clark Keiko C Salazar Austen L Terwilliger Heidi B Kaplan Barbara W Trautner Robert F Ramig Anthony W Maresso

mBio 2020 08 4;11(4). Epub 2020 Aug 4.

Tailored Antibacterials and Innovative Laboratories for Phage (Φ) Research (TAILΦR), Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

August 2020

Current surgeon practices for postoperative activity restrictions after abdominal surgery vary widely: A survey from the communities on the ACS website.

Authors:

Michele M Loor Naila H Dhanani Barbara W Trautner Tyler G Hughes Jerry Schwartz Qi Wei Mike K Liang

Surgery 2020 11 21;168(5):778-784. Epub 2020 Jul 21.

Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

November 2020

Tailored Antibacterials and Innovative Laboratories for Phage (Φ) Research: Personalized Infectious Disease Medicine for the Most Vulnerable At-Risk Patients.

Authors:

Austen L Terwilliger Carmen Gu Liu Sabrina I Green Justin R Clark Keiko C Salazar Haroldo Hernandez Santos Emmaline R Heckmann Barbara W Trautner Robert F Ramig Anthony W Maresso

Phage (New Rochelle) 2020 06 16;1(2):66-74. Epub 2020 Jun 16.

Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

June 2020

A Multifaceted Research Engagement Program Improved the Academic Productivity of General Surgery Residents.

Authors:

William C Frankel Bradford G Scott Nader N Massarweh Eric J Silberfein Qianzi Zhang Todd K Rosengart Scott A LeMaire Barbara W Trautner

J Surg Educ 2020 Sep - Oct;77(5):1082-1087. Epub 2020 Jun 3.

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas; Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Electronic address:

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

June 2020

Thromboelastographic Results and Hypercoagulability Syndrome in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Who Are Critically Ill.

Authors:

Jared Robert Mortus Stephen E Manek Lisa Suzanne Brubaker Michele Loor Miguel Angel Cruz Barbara W Trautner Todd K Rosengart

JAMA Netw Open 2020 06 1;3(6):e2011192. Epub 2020 Jun 1.

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

June 2020

Organizational readiness assessment in acute and long-term care has important implications for antibiotic stewardship for asymptomatic bacteriuria.

Authors:

Melanie C Goebel Barbara W Trautner Yiqun Wang John N Van Laura M Dillon Payal K Patel Dimitri M Drekonja Christopher J Graber Bhavarth S Shukla Paola Lichtenberger Christian D Helfrich Anne Sales Larissa Grigoryan

Am J Infect Control 2020 11 8;48(11):1322-1328. Epub 2020 May 8.

Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

November 2020

Imprecision Medicine: Challenges in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Measuring Quality for Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection.

Authors:

Barbara W Trautner Daniel J Morgan

Clin Infect Dis 2020 Dec;71(9):e520-e522

Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

December 2020

Spinal Cord Injury Provider Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Bacteriuria Management and Antibiotic Stewardship.

Authors:

Felicia Skelton Sarah May Larissa Grigoryan Ivy Poon Sally Ann Holmes Lindsey Martin Barbara W Trautner

PM R 2020 12 13;12(12):1187-1194. Epub 2020 May 13.

Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

December 2020

Urinary tract infection as a continuum-implications for diagnostic and antibiotic stewardship.

Authors:

Barbara W Trautner

Clin Infect Dis 2020 Mar 16. Epub 2020 Mar 16.

Center for Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

March 2020

Use of and patient-reported complications related to midline catheters and peripherally inserted central catheters.

Authors:

Erica H Lescinskas Barbara W Trautner Sanjay Saint John Colozzi Katherine Evertsz Vineet Chopra Sarah L Krein

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2020 05 4;41(5):608-610. Epub 2020 Mar 4.

Center for Clinical Management Research, Veterans' Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

May 2020

The varying specificity of urine cultures in different populations.

Authors:

Kirk M Chan-Tack Barbara W Trautner Daniel J Morgan

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2020 04 10;41(4):489-491. Epub 2020 Feb 10.

Veterans' Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

April 2020

Constructing and Characterizing Bacteriophage Libraries for Phage Therapy of Human Infections.

Authors:

Shelley B Gibson Sabrina I Green Carmen Gu Liu Keiko C Salazar Justin R Clark Austen L Terwilliger Heidi B Kaplan Anthony W Maresso Barbara W Trautner Robert F Ramig

Front Microbiol 2019 12;10:2537. Epub 2019 Nov 12.

Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

November 2019

The 2019 USPSTF Report on Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria-Lessons From History.

Authors:

Kalpana Gupta Barbara W Trautner

JAMA Netw Open 2019 09 4;2(9):e1912522. Epub 2019 Sep 4.

Center for Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

September 2019

Taking a Ride on the Stewardship Side of Long-term Care: The Cadillac and the Camry.

Authors:

Barbara W Trautner Aanand D Naik

JAMA Netw Open 2019 09 4;2(9):e199515. Epub 2019 Sep 4.

Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

September 2019

Teamwork and safety climate affect antimicrobial stewardship for asymptomatic bacteriuria.

Authors:

Dimitri M Drekonja Larissa Grigoryan Paola Lichtenberger Christopher J Graber Payal K Patel John N Van Laura M Dillon Yiqun Wang Timothy P Gauthier Steve W Wiseman Bhavarth S Shukla Aanand D Naik Sylvia J Hysong Jennifer R Kramer Barbara W Trautner

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2019 09 24;40(9):963-967. Epub 2019 Jul 24.

Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center,Houston,Texas.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

September 2019

Use of Antibiotics Without a Prescription in the U.S. Population: A Scoping Review.

Authors:

Larissa Grigoryan George Germanos Roger Zoorob Shivanki Juneja Jean L Raphael Michael K Paasche-Orlow Barbara W Trautner

Ann Intern Med 2019 08 23;171(4):257-263. Epub 2019 Jul 23.

Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (J.L.R., B.W.T.).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

August 2019

What do patients say about their experience with urinary catheters and peripherally inserted central catheters?

Authors:

Barbara W Trautner Sanjay Saint Karen E Fowler John Van Tracey Rosen John Colozzi Vineet Chopra Erica Lescinskas Sarah L Krein

Am J Infect Control 2019 09 16;47(9):1130-1134. Epub 2019 Jul 16.

Department of Veterans Affairs, Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI; Department of Veterans Affairs/University of Michigan Patient Safety Enhancement Program, Ann Arbor, MI.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

September 2019