Dr. Robert Paul Gaynes MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
5301 Lake View Clb Atlanta GA, 30338About
Dr. Robert Gaynes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Gaynes specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1979
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Nosocomial infections in pediatric intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units.
- A survey of methods used to detect nosocomial legionellosis among participants in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.
- Determinants of vancomycin use in adult intensive care units in 41 United States hospitals.
- Surveillance of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in United States hospitals: project ICARE phase 2. Project Intensive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology (ICARE) hospitals.
- Glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus: evaluation of a novel screening method and results of a survey of selected U.S. hospitals.
- Surgical-site infections and the NNIS SSI Risk Index: room for improvement.
- Practices to improve antimicrobial use at 47 US hospitals: the status of the 1997 SHEA/IDSA position paper recommendations. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Surveillance of surgical-site infections: the world coming together?
- Nosocomial infections in combined medical-surgical intensive care units in the United States.
- Ability of laboratories to detect emerging antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial pathogens: a survey of project ICARE laboratories.
- Surgical-site infections (SSI) and the NNIS Basic SSI Risk Index, part II: room for improvement.
- Antimicrobial resistance prevalence rates in hospital antibiograms reflect prevalence rates among pathogens associated with hospital-acquired infections.
- Surgical site infection (SSI) rates in the United States, 1992-1998: the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System basic SSI risk index.
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