Medical Director, Infection Prevention, St John Hospital and Medical Center

Infectious Disease

Mohamad Fakih practices Infectious Disease. Mohamad Fakih is also published. He has 37 publications published. The lastest publication: "Specific binding of Haemophilus influenzae to minor gangliosides of human respiratory epithelial cells.' He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Beyond Infection: Device Utilization Ratio as a Performance Measure for Urinary Catheter Harm.
• Blood culture series benefit may be limited to selected clinical conditions: time to reassess.
• Regional variation in urinary catheter use and catheter-associated urinary tract infection: results from a national collaborative.
• Implementing a national program to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection: a quality improvement collaboration of state hospital associations, academic med...
• Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection: an integrative review.
• Peripheral venous catheter care in the emergency department: education and feedback lead to marked improvements.
• Decreasing incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia over 9 years: greatest decline in community-associated methicillin-susceptible and hospital-acquired methicill...
• Sustained reductions in urinary catheter use over 5 years: Bedside nurses view themselves responsible for evaluation of catheter necessity.
• Specific binding of Haemophilus influenzae to minor gangliosides of human respiratory epithelial cells.
• First reported case of Aspergillus granulosus infection in a cardiac transplant patient.
• Mycobacterium malmoense bacteremia in two AIDS patients.
• Impact of initial antibiotic choice and delayed appropriate treatment on the outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
• Clinical characteristics of necrotizing fasciitis caused by group G Streptococcus: case report and review of the literature.
• Interinstitutional and intrainstitutional transmission of a strain of Acinetobacter baumannii detected by molecular analysis: comparison of pulsed-field gel electropho...
• Persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: incidence and outcome trends over time.
• Effect of nurse-led multidisciplinary rounds on reducing the unnecessary use of urinary catheterization in hospitalized patients.
• Prevalence of nasal colonization among patients with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and their household contacts.
• Increase in the rate of sternal surgical site infection after coronary artery bypass graft: a marker of higher severity of illness.
• Misdiagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and inappropriate utilization of antibiotics: side effects of the 4-h antibiotic administration rule.
• Eliminating nosocomial infections at Ascension Health.
• A Web-based course on infection control for physicians in training: an educational intervention.
• Optimal criteria for the diagnosis of Legionella coinfection.
• Persistence in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: incidence, characteristics of patients and outcome.
• Time to positivity in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: possible correlation with the source and outcome of infection.
• Do resident physicians use antibiotics appropriately in treating upper respiratory infections? A survey of 11 programs.
• Molecular analysis of Staphylococcus aureus blood isolates shows lack of polyclonal bacteremia.
• Cryptococcus neoformans myositis without dissemination.
• Reducing inappropriate urinary catheter use: a statewide effort.
• The effect of resident peer-to-peer education on compliance with urinary catheter placement indications in the emergency department.
• Relevance of vancomycin-intermediate susceptibility and heteroresistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia.
• Urinary catheters in the emergency department: very elderly women are at high risk for unnecessary utilization.
• Effect of establishing guidelines on appropriate urinary catheter placement.
• Peripherally inserted central venous catheters in the acute care setting: A safe alternative to high-risk short-term central venous catheters.
• Translating health care-associated urinary tract infection prevention research into practice via the bladder bundle.
• Harvest surgical site infection following coronary artery bypass grafting: risk factors, microbiology, and outcomes.
• Role of SCCmec type in outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a single medical center.

Schools

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• American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine

• Buffalo General Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Infectious Disease Medicine
• Infectious Disease

Accepted Insurances

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• Choice Plus POS II
• Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
• Blue Care Network PCP Focus Network
• Group Employees PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Cofinity PPO
• Commercial Insurance Company
• Fidelis Care HMO
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Health Alliance
• Preferred PPO
• Choice Care PPO
• Kaiser Permanente
• McLaren Health Plan
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Priority PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• United Healthcare

Education

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• University at Buffalo
• American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• St. John Hospital and Medical Center

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1992798771
Last Name Of The Provider	FAKIH
First Name Of The Provider	MOHAMAD
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