ChristopherRobertPolageMDMAS

PubMed

• From pre-test and post-test probabilities to medical decision making.
  Michelle Pistner Nixon, Farhani Momotaz, Claire Smith, Jeffrey S Smith, Mark Sendak
  BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2024-07-29
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  Implementation of a diagnostic stewardship intervention to improve blood-culture utilization in 2 surgical ICUs: Time for a blood-culture change.
  Jessica L Seidelman, Rebekah Moehring, Erin Gettler, Jay Krishnan, Lynn McGugan
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2024-04-01
• From Pre-test and Post-test Probabilities to Medical Decision Making.
  Michelle Pistner Nixon, Farhani Momotaz, Claire Smith, Jeffrey S Smith, Mark Sendak
  Medrxiv. 2024-02-17

Journal Articles

• Overdiagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection in the Molecular Test Era  
  Polage CR, Gyorke C, Kennedy M, Leslie J, Chin D, Wang S, Nguyen H, Huang B, Tang YW, Lee L, Kim K, Taylor S, Romano PS, Panacek EA, Goodell P, Solnick JV, Cohen SH, JAMA internal medicine, 1/8/2015
• Invited Editorial Commentary: Microbiologic testing in post-solid-organ transplant diarrhea  
  Polage CR, Clin Infect Dis, 1/1/2015
• Identification of gram-negative bacteria and genetic resistance determinants from positive blood culture broths using the Verigene Gram-Negative Blood Culture multiple...  
  Ledeboer NA, Lopansri BK, Dhiman N, Cavagnolo R, Carroll K, Granato P, Thompson R, Butler-Wu S, Samuel L, Pancholi P, Hansen GT, Tran N, Polage CR, Thompson KS, Winega..., J Clin Microbiol, 1/1/2015
• Editor’s Choice Summary: Neutrophils: Another Case of Wrongful Conviction?  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2014
• Editor’s Choice Summary: Hydrogen Fuels Cells in the Gut  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2014
• Editor’s Choice Summary: Mast Cells Help Bacteria Hang Out After the Party  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2013
• Editor’s Choice Summary: The Gut Is No Place for Freedom of Expression  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2013
• Editor’s Choice Summary: Neutrophils Block Bacterial Flood in Gut Infection  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2013
• Editor’s Choice Summary: Good and Bad Bacteria Fight for Iron in the Gut  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2013
• Editor’s Choice Summary: Fish Oil Cools the Inflammasome  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2013
• Editor’s Choice Summary: One More Reason to Love Mother’s Milk  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2013
• Editor’s Choice Summary: Microbes Hold the Key to Metformin-Induced Longevity  
  Polage CR, Sci Transl Med, 1/1/2013
• Evaluation of Fecal C difficile Load and Limit of Detection during a Prospective Comparison of Two Molecular Tests, the Illumigene C difficile and Xpert C difficile/Epi  
  Gyorke CE, Wang S, Leslie JL, Cohen SH, Solnick JV, Polage CR, J Clin Microbiol, 1/1/2013
• Infectious Colitis in a Patient with AIDS  
  Millstein A, Olson KA, Polage CR, ASCP CheckSample Microbiology, 1/1/2012
• Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Pathogen Detection in Trauma, Emergency, and Burn Surgery Patients with Suspected Septicemia  
  Tran NK, Wisner DH, Albertson TE, Cohen S, Greenhalgh DG, Palmieri TL, Polage C, Kost GJ, Surgery, 1/1/2012
• Chondrolysis of the Tibial Plateau Caused by Articular Aspergillosis after ACL Autograft Reconstruction Managed with a Fresh Osteochondral Allograft: A Case Report  
  Antkowiak TT, Polage CR, Wiedeman JA, Meehan JP, Jamali AA, J Bone Joint Surg Am, 1/1/2011
• Evaluation of Escherichia coli cell response to antibiotic treatment using laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy  
  Moritz TJ, Polage CR, Taylor DS, Krol DM, Lane SM, Chan JW, J Clin Microbiol, 1/1/2010
• Respiratory Syncitial Virus Outbreak in a Long Term Care Facility Detected by Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction: An Argument for Real-time Detection Methods  
  Caram LB, Chen J, Taggart EW, Hillyard DR, She R, Polage CR, Twersky J, Schmader K, Petti CA, Woods CW, J Am Geriatr Soc, 1/1/2009
• Laboratory utilization in Ghana: physician perception and practice  
  Polage CR, Bedu-Addo G, Owusu-Ofori A, Frimpong E, Lloyd W, Zurcher E, Hale D, Petti CA, Am J Trop Med Hyg, 1/1/2006
• Effects of beta thalassemia minor on results of six glycohemoglobin methods  
  Polage CR, Little RR, Rohlfing CL, Cole TG, Roberts WL, Clin Chim Acta, 1/1/2004
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Books/Book Chapters

• UpToDate 
  Chapter: Molecular diagnosis of CNS infections 
  Polage CR, Petti CAEditors: Rose BD.Wellesley, MA2010
• Clinical Virology Manual 
  Chapter: Immunoenzymatic Techniques for Detection of Viral Antigens in Cells and Tissue 
  Polage CR, Petti CAEditors: Specter SC, Hodinka RL, Young SA.ASM Press2009

Abstracts/Posters

• Performance of Direct Specimen PCR and Selective Broth PCR for Detection of Clostridium difficile Colonization in Hospitalized Patients
  Polage CR, Kennedy MA, Gyorke C, Turkiewicz J, Ocampo N, Tu C, Beebout C, Adamson C, Robinson C, McDonald LC, Dubberke ER, Cohen SH, 115th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), New Orleans, LA, 1/30/2015
• Multicenter Evaluation of Clindamycin MIC Results for Staphylococci Using MicroScan Dried Overnight Panels
  Humphries RM, Hindler JA, Schreckenberger PC, Tjhio J, Polage CR, Weinstein MP, Evans M, Brookman RK, Chau JY, Roe-Carpenter D, 115th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), New Orleans, LA, 1/30/2015
• Multicenter Evaluation of Vancomycin MIC Results for Staphylococci and Enterococci Using MicroScan Dried Gram Positive MIC Panels read on the WalkAway System and autoS...
  Humphries RM, Hindler JA, Schreckenberger PC, Tjhio J, Polage CR, Weinstein MP, Evans M, Brookman RK, Chau JY, Roe-Carpenter D, 115th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), New Orleans, LA, 1/30/2015
• Multicenter Evaluation of Vancomycin MIC Results for Staphylococci and Enterococci Using MicroScan Dried Gram Positive MIC Panel
  Humphries RM, Hindler JA, Schreckenberger PC, Tjhio J, Polage CR, Weinstein MP, Evans M, Brookman RK, Chau JY, Roe-Carpenter D, 115th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), New Orleans, LA, 1/30/2015
• Multicenter Evaluation of Vancomycin MIC Results for Challenge Isolates Using MicroScan Dried Gram Positive MIC Panels
  Schreckenberger PC, Tjhio J, Weinstein MP, Polage CR, Humphries RM, Hindler JA, Brookman RK, Chau JY, Roe-Carpenter D, Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), San Diego, CA, 1/17/2015
• Misclassification of Community-Onset Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) as Hospital-Onset CDI at an Academic Medical Center
  Polage CR, Kennedy MA, Adamson C, Hevener S, Robinson C, Dubberke ER, McDonald LC, Cohen SH, ID Week 2015, Joint Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), San Diego, CA, 1/8/2015
• Multicenter Evaluation of a MicroScan Dried Overnight Panel for Susceptibility Testing of Tigecycline Against Staphylococci and Enterococci
  Lewinski MA, Polage CR, Riedel S, Mann LM, Roe-Carpenter D, 114th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Boston, MA, 1/17/2014
• Multicenter Evaluation of Tigecycline MIC Results for Staphylococci Using a MicroScan Dried Overnight Performance Evaluation Device Panel
  Lewinski MA, Polage CR, Riedel S, Mann LM, Roe-Carpenter D, 24rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Barcelona, Spain, 1/10/2014
• Multicenter Evaluation of Ceftaroline MIC Results for Staphylococci Using a MicroScan Dried Overnight Performance Evaluation Device Panel
  Lewinski MA, Polage CR, Riedel S, Roe-Carpenter D, Mann LM, 23rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Berlin, Germany, 1/27/2013
• Does Esp Secreting Staphylococcus epidermidis Inhibit Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in the Hospitalized Newborn Infant?
  Lee DL, Polage CR, Connolly PA, Underwood MA, Western Regional Meeting of the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR) and Western Society for Pediatric Research (WSPR), Caramel, CA, 1/25/2013
• Hyperglycemia Down Regulates Toll-like Receptors on Neutrophils: Implications for Propensity to Infections
  Jialal I, Polage C, Kaur H, Devaraj S, American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) 2013 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 1/20/2013
• Multicenter Evaluation of a MicroScan Dried Overnight Panel for Susceptibility Testing of Ceftaroline against Staphylococcus aureus
  Lewinski MA, Polage CR, Riedel S, Eisinger SW, Schwartz M, Connolly P, Papathakis E, Hindler JF, Tagaro M, Roe-Carpenter D, Bains H, Mann LM, 113th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Denver, CO, 1/18/2013
• Outcomes in C. difficile Patients with Negative Toxin Immunoassay Results
  Polage CR, Gyorke C, Kennedy M, Leslie J, Chin D, Wang S, Nguyen H, Huang B, Tang YW, Panacek E, Goodell P, Solnick JV, Cohen SH, ID Week 2013, Joint Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), San Francisco, CA, 1/2/2013
• Markers of Toxin Status and Host Response in Clostridium difficile Diarrhea
  Polage CR, Cohen SH, Solnick JV, Translational Science, Joint Meeting of ACRT/AFMR/SCTS, Washington, DC, 1/19/2012
• Outcomes in Clostridium difficile Toxin- /DNA+ Diarrhea.
  Polage CR, Chin DL, Leslie JL, Solnick JV, ACRT/AFMR/SCTS Joint Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1/27/2011
• Impact of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) at the Time of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) on Gastrointestinal Parasites Testing
  Polage CR, Nguyen H, 110th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), San Diego, CA, 1/26/2010
• Raman Spectroscopic Signatures of the Metabolic States of Escherichia coli cells and Their Dependence on Antibiotic Treatment
  Moritz TJ, Polage CR, Taylor DS, Krol DM, Lane SM, Chan JW, 54th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society (BPS), San Francisco, CA, 1/24/2010
• Point-of-Care pathogen detection for critical care using highly multiplex linear- after-the-exponential polymerase chain reaction. Capturing Innovation: The Impact on ...
  Gentile NL, Czajka JW, Lewington J, Williams GV, Reis AH, Barry PA, Polage CR, Kost GJ, 42nd Annual Oakridge Conference, American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), San Jose, CA, 1/22/2010
• Point-of-Care pathogen detection for critical care and low resource areas using highly multiplex linear-after-the-exponential polymerase chain reaction
  Gentile NL, Hale KN, Czajka JW, Lewington J, Williams GV, Reis AH, Barry PA, Polage CR, Kost GJ, 14th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in the Pacific Rim, Penang, Malaysia, 1/4/2010
• Use of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Extensive Sputum Culturing Protocol for Patients with Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis
  Brown J, Polage CR, Morrissey BM, Chest, American College of Chest Physicians, Vancouver, Canada, 1/1/2010
• Impact of Infectious Diseases Consultation on Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
  Sweet M, Halilovic J, Christensen C, Polage C, Cohen S, 47th Annual Meeting, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Philadelphia, PA, 1/31/2009
• Impact of Vancomycin MIC on Clinical Outcome in Patients with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection not Exhibiting Vancomycin Heteroresistance (...
  Sweet M, Christensen C, Polage C, Heintz B, Cohen S, 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), San Francisco, CA, 1/14/2009
• Prospective Respiratory Epidemiologic Surveillance Study (PRESS) – Viral Respiratory Infections in a Long-term Care Facility Population
  Caram LB, Petti CA, Schmader K, Hillyard DR, Twersky J, Taggart EW, She-Bender R, Polage CR, Woods CW, American Geriatric Society Annual Scientific Meeting (AGS), Washington, DC, 1/30/2008
• Performance of Diagnostic Tests to Detect Respiratory Viruses in Older Adults
  She RC, Polage CR, Taggart EW, Hymas W, Caram LB, Woods CW, Petti CA, 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Washington, DC, 1/27/2008
• Utility of the Ova and Parasite Examination
  Polage CR, Petti CA, 107th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Ontario, Canada, 1/23/2007
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Lectures

• State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Testing for Central Nervous System Infections 
  San Diego, CA - 1/1/2015
• Overdiagnosis of C. difficile Infection in the Molecular Test Era 
  Atlanta, GA - 1/1/2015
• Preliminary Results of the UC Davis STOP C. difficile Project 
  Atlanta, GA - 1/1/2015
• UC Davis STOP C. difficile Project 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2014
• What does it take to distinguish infection from colonization in patients with Clostridium difficile associated disease? 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2013
• Update on diagnostic testing for Clostridium difficile and nosocomial diarrhea: where are we now? 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2013
• Potential applications for biophotonics in clinical microbiology 
  Squaw Creek, CA - 1/1/2012
• Nosocomial Diarrhea: Causes and Evaluation Including Clostridium difficile Infection 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2012
• The role of procalcitonin and other biomarkers in the management of infectious diseases 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2011
• The fecal microbiome in Clostridium difficile infection and antibiotic associated diarrhea 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2010
• Is Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea always C. difficile infection? 
  Lake Tahoe, CA - 1/1/2010
• Traditional and Emerging Technologies in Clinical Microbiology 
  Quebec City, Canada - 1/1/2010
• Molecular Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2010
• Cytomegalovirus reactivation in Clostridium difficile infection: an update 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2009
• Appropriate Approaches to the Diagnosis of Parasitic Infections as a Cause of Diarrhea 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2009
• Combining Evidence, Education and Computerized Decision Support to Direct Ova & Parasite Testing: A Model for T2 Process Improvement 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2008
• Laboratory medicine in Africa: a dose of perspective 
  Salt Lake City, UT - 1/1/2007
• Characterization of Bacteria by Mass Spectrometry: Going Beyond Identification & Susceptibility 
  Sacramento, CA - 1/1/2007
• Antibiotic resistance trends 1996-2005 
  Salt Lake City, UT - 1/1/2006
• Virulence & antibiotic resistance in S. aureus 
  Salt Lake City, UT - 1/1/2006
• Laboratory medicine in Africa: a barrier to effective health care 
  Salt Lake City, UT - 1/1/2005
• Analysis of phylogenetic relationships compared with traditional techniques in bacterial identification 
  Salt Lake City, UT - 1/1/2004
• Diagnosis and monitoring of HIV infection by laboratory methods 
  Mbarara, Uganda - 1/1/2004
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Other

• Update on Diagnostic Testing for C. difficile and Nosocomial Diarrhea: Where are we now? 
  Polage CR
  http://www.whitehatcom.com/alere
  1/1/2014
• Molecular diagnosis of central nervous system infections 
  Polage CR, Petti CA
  http://www.uptodate.com/contents/molecular-diagnosis-of-central-nervous-system-infections
  UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-04-30