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Andrew M Morris

Department of Medicine, Sinai Health, University Health Network, and University of Toronto
Verified email at sinaihealth.ca
Cited by 6248

Does this adult patient with suspected bacteremia require blood cultures?

B Coburn, AM Morris, G Tomlinson, AS Detsky - Jama, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Context Clinicians order blood cultures liberally among patients in whom bacteremia is
suspected, though a small proportion of blood cultures yield true-positive results. Ordering blood …

Impact of Infectious Disease Consultation on Quality of Care, Mortality, and Length of Stay in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Results From a Large Multicenter …

…, G Tomlinson, CM Bell, AM Morris - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. We assessed the impact of infectious disease (ID) consultation on management
and outcome in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). Methods. A …

[HTML][HTML] Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

…, EG McDonald, MP Cheng, AM Morris, M Loeb… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Precise estimates of mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) are
important to convey prognosis and guide the design of interventional studies. Objectives We …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial stewardship programs: appropriate measures and metrics to study their impact

AM Morris - Current treatment options in infectious diseases, 2014 - Springer
Opinion statement Antimicrobial stewardship is a new field that struggles to find the right
balance between meaningful and useful metrics to study the impact of antimicrobial stewardship …

Diagnostic accuracy of transthoracic echocardiography for infective endocarditis findings using transesophageal echocardiography as the reference standard: a meta …

…, RS Bhatia, GA Tomlinson, CM Bell, AM Morris - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Echocardiography is important for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE),
for which transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is superior to transthoracic …

Annualized incidence and spectrum of illness from an outbreak investigation of Bell's palsy

AM Morris, SL Deeks, MD Hill, G Midroni… - …, 2002 - karger.com
Background: There are limited clinical and epidemiological data on patients diagnosed with
Bell’s palsy. While investigating an apparent clustering of Bell’s palsy, we sought to …

Paediatric single mitochondrial DNA deletion disorders: an overlapping spectrum of disease

…, CE Woodward, C Fratter, AM Morris… - Journal of Inherited …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Single large‐scale mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions (SLSMDs) are amongst
the most frequently diagnosed mtDNA disorders in childhood, yet their natural history …

Use of a structured panel process to define quality metrics for antimicrobial stewardship programs

AM Morris, S Brener, L Dresser, N Daneman… - Infection Control & …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Introduction.Antimicrobial stewardship programs are being implemented in health care to
reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use, adverse events, Clostridium difficile infection, and …

Impact of Early Valve Surgery on Outcome of Staphylococcus aureus Prosthetic Valve Infective Endocarditis: Analysis in the International Collaboration of …

…, JA Karlowsky, Y Keynan, AM Morris… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. The impact of early valve surgery (EVS) on the outcome of Staphylococcus
aureus (SA) prosthetic valve infective endocarditis (PVIE) is unresolved. The objective of this …

Use of novel strategies to develop guidelines for management of pyogenic osteomyelitis in adults: a WikiGuidelines group consensus statement

…, M Kang, R Lee, EG McDonald, AM Morris… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Traditional approaches to practice guidelines frequently result in dissociation
between strength of recommendation and quality of evidence. Objective To construct a clinical …