• Non-Indexed Online Comment: Kavanagh KT. Is Nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 Still Worth Preventing?  JAMA Network. Nov. 13, 2023.  View Comment  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2811653  

• Kavanagh KT, Cormier LE. Viewpoint: Patient Safety in Primary Care – Patients are not just a beneficiary but a critical component in its achievement. Medicine. Sept. 15, 2023.  https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/fulltext/2023/09150/viewpoint__patient_safety_in_primary_care__.3.aspx 

• Kavanagh KT, Maiwald M, Pontus C, Cimiotti JP, Palmieri PA, Cormier LE. Frontline Worker Safety in the Age of COVID-19: A Global Perspective. Journal of Patient Safety. May 10, 2023.  https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/9900/Frontline_Worker_Safety_in_the_Age_of_COVID_19__A.126.aspx

• Non-Indexed Online Comment: Kavanagh KT. Household Transmission of Influenza A Viruses in 2021-2022 JAMA Network. Mar. 1, 2023. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2800976

• Non-Indexed Online Comment: Kavanagh KT. Cormier LE.  Re: Long covid outcomes at one year after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection: nationwide cohort study.  BMJ. Jan. 1, 2023. https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2022-072529/rr-2 

• Kavanagh KT, Cormier LE. Success and Failures in MRSA infection Control During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. Sept. 24, 2022. https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-022-01158-z  

• Kavanagh KT, Pontus C, Par J, Cormier LE. COVID-19 Lessons Learned: A Global Perspective.  Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.  Aug. 26, 2021.  https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-021-00992-x   

• Kavanagh KT, Pare J, Pontus, C.  COVID-19: Through the Eyes through the Front Line, an International Perspective.  Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.  Nov. 7, 2020.   179,    https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-020-00850-2  

• Kavanagh KT, Dykes PC. Hospital Pressure Injury Metrics, an Unfulfilled Need of Paramount Importance. Journal of Patient Safety.  March 12, 2020. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000694 https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Citation/9000/Hospital_
  Pressure_Injury_Metrics,_an_Unfulfilled.99204.aspx  .

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• Kavanagh KT, Brown RE, Kraman SS, Calderon LE, Kavanagh SP. Reporter Occupation and Source of Adverse Device Event Reports Contained in the FDA’s MAUDE Database. Patient Related Outcome Measures. DOI: 10.2147/PROM.S212991   July 1, 2019.  https://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=46767 

• Kavanagh KT. Control of MSSA and MRSA in the United States: Protocols, Policies, Risk Adjustment and Excuses   ARIC. DOI: 10.1186/s13756-019-0550  June 19, 2019   https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-019-0550-2  

• Kavanagh KT, Kraman SS.  Comment Regarding: Prevalence, Underlying Causes, and Preventability of Sepsis-Associated Mortality in US Acute Care Hospitals
  JAMAOpenNetwork:  "But when medicine makes the leap from a death caused deliberately to one caused by a preventable error we all too often use the patient’s terminal condition to negate or ignore the occurrence. I feel many would question the logic behind this philosophy and that almost all would realize this is not how one achieves a high-performance delivery system which is patient centered."  Download Comment    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2724768

• Kavanagh KT, Kraman Ss.  An Analysis of the FDA MAUDE Database and the Search for
  Cobalt Toxicity in Class 3 Johnson & Johnson/DePuy Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants.  Journal of Patient Safety:  Dec. 2018 - Volume 14 - Issue 4 - p e89-e96  doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000534 .  https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Abstract/2018/12000/
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• Kavanagh KT, Abusalem S, Calderon LE. View point: gaps in the current guidelines for the prevention of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections  Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. Sept. 18, 2018.   Free Access:  https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-018-0407-0

  
  

• Kavanagh KT, Abusalem S, Calderon LE. The incidence of MRSA infections in the United States. Is a more comprehensive tracking system needed? Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. April 7, 2017.   Free Access:  https://rdcu.be/KRmU   https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-017-0193-0 
   
  Coverage by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.    https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/04/stewardship-resistance-scan-apr-07-2017

• Letter to Editor:  Comment Regarding:  Electronic hand hygiene monitoring as a tool for reducing health care–associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.  American Journal of infection Control.  December 01 2016    https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(16)30904-X/fulltext   

  • (PubMed Commons) Kavanagh KT, Saman DM. Comment on PMID: 27908437: Comment on “Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring as a Tool for Reducing Nosocomial Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection” In: PubMed Commons [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine; 2017 Dec. 26. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27346800/#comments  
    Pub Commons is no longer available on the NLM's NCBI website to view the submitted comment please download:  https://www.healthwatchusa.org/HWUSA-Publications/PDF-Downloads/PubMedPeerComments.pdf 
     
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  • (PubMed Commons) Kavanagh KT, Saman DM. Comment on PMID: 27908437: Response to Letter Regarding Manuscript “Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring as a Tool for Reducing Nosocomial Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection” In: PubMed Commons [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine; 2016 Dec. 16. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27908437#cm27908437_34333  
    Pub Commons is no longer available on the NLM's NCBI website to view the submitted comment please download:  https://www.healthwatchusa.org/HWUSA-Publications/PDF-Downloads/PubMedPeerComments.pdf 
     
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• Landers T, Kavanagh KT. Is the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistance missing opportunities? Am J Infect Control. 2016 Nov 1;44(11):1356-1359. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.07.008. Epub 2016 Sep 2. PMID: 27597393.  https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(16)30706-4/fulltext     Download Authors Manuscript Version (Free Access):  https://www.healthwatchusa.org/HWUSA-Publications/PDF-Downloads/20160906-PACCARBCommentary-FinalSubmittedManuiscript.pdf   View Altmetric Score

• Kavanagh KT, Tower SS, Saman DM. A Perspective on the Principles of Integrity in Infectious Disease Research. J Patient Saf. 2016 Jun;12(2):57-62. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000265. PMID: 27010326; PMCID: PMC4915748. https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/fulltext/2016/06000/
  A_Perspective_on_the_Principles_of_Integrity_in.1.aspx  

• Kavanagh KT, Calderon LE, Rice MK. Authors' Response to Letter Regarding "Questionable validity of the catheter-associated urinary tract infection metric used for value-based purchasing". Am J Infect Control. 2016 Mar 1;44(3):370-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.12.002. Epub 2016 Jan 27. PMID: 26827094.   https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.12.002     https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553%2815%2901229-8/pdf     View Altmetric Score

• Calderon LE, Kavanagh KT, Rice MK. Questionable validity of the catheter-associated urinary tract infection metric used for value-based purchasing. Am J Infect Control. 2015 Oct 1;43(10):1050-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.05.024. Epub 2015 Jun 30. PMID: 26139001.   https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553%2815%2900613-6/fulltext      View Altmetric Score

• Kavanagh KT, Calderon LE, Saman DM. Viewpoint: a response to "Screening and isolation to control methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: sense, nonsense, and evidence". Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2015 Feb 5;4:4. doi: 10.1186/s13756-015-0044-9. PMID: 25729571; PMCID: PMC4345038.  https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-015-0044-9   http://www.aricjournal.com/content/pdf/s13756-015-0044-9.pdf    View Altmetric Score 

  • Dancer S. "The Year in Infection Control"  ECCMID (the 25th  European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious  Diseases, Copenhagen, Denmark). Dr. Dancer is the past editor of the Journal of Hospital Infection. The publication is quoted in slides 12 & 27 https://eccmidlive.org/resources/part-ii--3

• Wu AW, Kavanagh KT, Pronovost PJ, Bates DW. Conflict of interest, Dr Charles Denham and the Journal of Patient Safety. J Patient Saf. 2014 Dec;10(4):181-5. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000144. PMID: 25408235.   https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2014/
  12000/Conflict_of_Interest,_Dr_Charles_Denham_and_the.1.aspx

• Kavanagh KT. Letter to the editor regarding: the effectiveness of medicare's non-payment of hospital-acquired conditions policy. Health Policy. 2014 Dec;118(3):422-3. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.08.006. Epub 2014 Aug 27. PMID: 25201486.    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851014002218 

• Kavanagh KT. How I was prescribed an unnecessary antibiotic while traveling to a conference on antibiotic resistance. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Sep;174(9):1433-4. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3412. PMID: 25089657.
  https://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1892183   View Altmetric Score

• Kavanagh KT, Calderon LE, Saman DM, Abusalem SK. The use of surveillance and preventative measures for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections in surgical patients. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2014 May 14;3:18. doi: 10.1186/2047-2994-3-18. PMID: 24847437; PMCID: PMC4028005.  View Altmetric Score https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4028005/    https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-2994-3-18   

• Kavanagh KT, Saman DM, Yu Y. Reply to "Planned analyses of the REDUCE MRSA Trial". Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014;58(4):2486-7. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02821-13. PMID: 24643844; PMCID: PMC4023793.   https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AAC.02821-13      Download Full Article PDF  

• Kavanagh KT, Calderon LE, Saman DM. Much work still to be done to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections. Am J Med Qual. 2014 Sep-Oct;29(5):454-5. doi: 10.1177/1062860613513317. Epub 2013 Dec 13. PMID: 24335078.
  https://ajm.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/13/1062860613513317.extract
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• Saman DM, Kavanagh KT. Assessing the necessity of the standardized infection ratio for reporting central line-associated bloodstream infections. PLoS One. 2013 Nov 4;8(11):e79554. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079554. PMID: 24223966; PMCID: PMC3817126. 
  https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0079554     View Altmetric Score

• Kavanagh KT, Saman DM, Yu Y. A perspective on how the United States fell behind Northern Europe in the battle against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2013 Dec;57(12):5789-91. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01839-13. Epub 2013 Oct 7. Erratum in: Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 Oct;60(10):6440. PMID: 24100502; PMCID: PMC3837914.   https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/aac.01839-13    Erratum   View Altmetric Score   

  • American Council on Science and Health's blog  entitled  "More on the antibiotic crisis: Could Our Government Possibly Screw Up Worse Than This" https://www.acsh.org/news/2013/11/14/antibiotic-crisis-government-possibly-screw-worsee 

• Kavanagh KT, Calderon LE, Saman DM. The relationship between tort reform and medical utilization. J Patient Saf. 2014 Dec;10(4):222-30. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0b013e3182a7e992. PMID: 24104483.     Download Full Article PDF  https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Abstract/publishahead/The_Relationship_
  Between_Tort_Reform_and_Medical.99809.aspx   View Altmetric Score

• Saman DM, Kavanagh KT. Response to patient satisfaction as a possible indicator of quality surgical care. JAMA Surg. 2013 Oct;148(10):985. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.3408. PMID: 24132396.   https://archsurg.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1756992     View Altmetric Score

• Saman DM, Kavanagh KT, Johnson B, Lutfiyya MN. Can inpatient hospital experiences predict central line-associated bloodstream infections? PLoS One. 2013;8(4):e61097. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061097. Epub 2013 Apr 5. PMID: 23577195; PMCID: PMC3618432. 
  https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0061097   View Altmetric Score

• Saman DM, Kavanagh KT, Abusalem SK. Redefining the standardized infection ratio to aid in consumer value purchasing. J Patient Saf. 2013 Jun;9(2):55-8. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0b013e3182809f31. PMID: 23370222. https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/fulltext/2013/06000/
  Redefining_the_Standardized_Infection_Ratio_to_Aid.1.aspx  

  • Poster Presentation:  Kavanagh KT and Saman DM. Meaningful Definition of the Standardized Infection Ratio. The 2012 HAI Data Summit. US Dept of Health and Human Services. Kansas City, MO. May 31, 2012 
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• Kavanagh KT. Nonpayment for preventable infections in U.S. hospitals. N Engl J Med. 2013 Jan 10;368(2):191. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1213732. PMID: 23301747.   View Altmetric Score   http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1213732  

• Kavanagh KT, Cimiotti JP, Abusalem S, Coty MB. Moving healthcare quality forward with nursing-sensitive value-based purchasing. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2012 Dec;44(4):385-95. doi: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2012.01469.x. Epub 2012 Oct 15. PMID: 23066956; PMCID: PMC3558794.   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1547-5069.2012.01469.x/full    View Altmetric Score

  • Coverage of Article in Kentucky Health News 
    https://kyhealthnews.blogspot.com/2012/10/infections-
    other-safety-issues-plague.html 

  • Coverage by Nurse Future.com
    https://nursefuture.com/2012/10/safety-issues-worry-hospitals/  

  • Coverage by WEKU   "Safety Issues Worry Hospitals"
    https://www.weku.fm/post/safety-issues-worry-hospitals  

  • Coverage by Unitek College  "Nurses Stand to Gain from Value-Based Care"
    https://www.unitekcollege.edu/blog/nurses-stand-gain-valuebased-care/

• Kavanagh K, Abusalem S, Saman DM. A perspective on the evidence regarding methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance. J Patient Saf. 2012 Sep;8(3):140-3. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0b013e3182627b89. PMID: 22874134.  https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2012/09000/
  A_Perspective_on_the_Evidence_Regarding.6.aspx  

• Kavanagh KT. Premier pay for performance and patient outcomes. N Engl J Med. 2012 Jul 26;367(4):381-2; author reply 382-3. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1206170. PMID: 22830476.  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206170    View Altmetric Score    

• Kavanagh KT. Financial incentives to promote health care quality: the hospital acquired conditions nonpayment policy. Soc Work Public Health. 2011;26(5):524-41. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2011.533554. Erratum in: Soc Work Public Health. 2012 Oct;27(6):637. PMID: 21902485.     
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19371918.2011.533554   View Altmetric Score   

• Kavanagh K, Abusalem S. Mounting evidence supports universal surveillance for MRSA in preoperative patients. J Am Coll Surg. 2011 Aug;213(2):335-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.05.014. PMID: 21787990.  . PMID: 21787990. (Commentary on Swiss/Geneva MRSA Study Published in JAMA (Harbarth, Fankhauser, Schrenzel, et.al, 2008)).      
  

• Kavanagh KT. In response to "Assessing nursing staffing ratios: variability in workload intensity". Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2007 Aug;8(3):182; author reply 183. doi: 10.1177/1527154407308489. PMID: 18178924. PMID: 18178924
    

• Kavanagh K. Health care integration: will physicians lose their voice? Bull Am Coll Surg. 2011 Jun;96(6):28-30. PMID: 22315908. View Article