Dr. Darren R. Linkin MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
51 North 39th Street 3910 Building, 2nd F Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Darren Linkin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Linkin 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 1997
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med 1997
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1997
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Outcomes of critically ill cancer patients in a university hospital setting.
- Ciprofloxacin versus tobramycin for neutropenic fevers.
- Applicability of Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to healthcare epidemiology: evaluation of the sterilization and use of surgical instruments.
- Fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in the long-term care setting.
- Evaluation of antimicrobial therapy orders circumventing an antimicrobial stewardship program: investigating the strategy of "stealth dosing".
- Inter-rater reliability of a classification system for hospital adverse drug event reports.
- Use of different thresholds of prior antimicrobial use in defining exposure: impact on the association between antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance.
- Improving disease reporting by clinicians: the effect of an internet-based intervention.
- Effect of accessibility of influenza vaccination on the rate of childcare staff vaccination.
- Role of matching in case-control studies of antimicrobial resistance.
- Blood and body fluid exposures among US medical students in Botswana.
- Medical students in developing countries.
- Isoniazid Toxicity among an Older Veteran Population: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
- A Time Off Incentive Was Not Associated with Influenza Vaccination Acceptance among Healthcare Workers.
- A multifaceted intervention to reduce rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a resource-limited setting.
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