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Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor MD

  • Department of Medicine
    Associate Professor
  • (404) 778-6382
  • scherne@emory.edu
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Overview

Research

Informatics focus
My group has designed, tested and validated innovative methods of leveraging the electronic medical record to track invasive device use for public reporting of hospital acquired conditions. Public reporting mandates, QI and health services research all require informatics innovations to maximize the secondary use of clinical data. Determining the methods to do this without creating major disruptions to clinical workflow is a priority area of our work. The CDC/NHSN and other reporting agencies are increasing looking to the electronic record to support surveillance efforts. Creating validated and clinically credible e-measures that are surrogates for subjective clinical measures is much of my focus. This year we were asked by the CDC/NHSN to develop a research proposal to apply our methods to antimicrobial stewardship activities and a $2 million proposal is under consideration. Additional work has focused on the use of NLP to augment quality measurement from the medical record.

Quality Improvement
My work in Quality Improvement has paralleled my informatics work and has focused on invasive device (central lines, urinary catheters) utilization and provider awareness of these devices. We designed and published original work on the Idle central venous catheter which has been widely cited. Provider checklists, daily rounds, multidisciplinary team rounds have all been utilized in my work on hospital acquired conditions. As the only hospitalist on HICPAC I am in a unique position to bring the perspective of hospital medicine clinical workflows to the national stage as new Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection Guidelines are under development by our group this year.

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine,
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering with focus in Biomechanics (with Highest Honors) from Georgia Institute of Technology

Research

Publications

  • Changes in the number of intensive care unit beds in US hospitals during the early months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 43 Page(s): 1477 - 1481
    10/01/2022 Authors: Weiner-Lastinger LM; Dudeck MA; Allen-Bridson K; Dantes R; Gross C; Nkwata A; Tejedor SC; Pollock D; Benin A
  • Hospital capacities and shortages of healthcare resources among US hospitals during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), March 27-July 14, 2020.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 43 Page(s): 1473 - 1476
    10/01/2022 Authors: Wu H; Soe MM; Konnor R; Dantes R; Haass K; Dudeck MA; Gross C; Leaptrot D; Sapiano MRP; Allen-Bridson K
  • Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on US Hospitals and Patients, April-July 2020.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 43 Page(s): 32 - 39
    01/01/2022 Authors: Sapiano MRP; Dudeck MA; Soe M; Edwards JR; O'Leary EN; Wu H; Allen-Bridson K; Amor A; Arcement R; Chernetsky Tejedor S
  • Building an Interactive Geospatial Visualization Application for National Health Care-Associated Infection Surveillance: Development Study.
    JMIR Public Health Surveill Volume: 7 Page(s): e23528
    07/30/2021 Authors: Zheng S; Edwards JR; Dudeck MA; Patel PR; Wattenmaker L; Mirza M; Tejedor SC; Lemoine K; Benin AL; Pollock DA
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Adults: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention.
    J Hosp Med Volume: 15 Page(s): 552 - 556
    09/01/2020 Authors: Clarke K; Hall CL; Wiley Z; Tejedor SC; Kim JS; Reif L; Witt L; Jacob JT
  • Identification of Important Features in Mobile Health Applications for Surgical Site Infection Surveillance.
    Surg Infect (Larchmt) Volume: 20 Page(s): 530 - 534
    10/01/2019 Authors: Chernetsky Tejedor S; Sharma J; Lavallee DC; Lober WB; Evans HL
  • Impact of multiple concurrent central lines on central-line-associated bloodstream infection rates.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 40 Page(s): 1019 - 1023
    09/01/2019 Authors: Couk J; Chernetsky Tejedor S; Steinberg JP; Robichaux C; Jacob JT
  • Executive Summary of the Assessing Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Technologies (ASSIST) Project
    SURGICAL INFECTIONS Volume: 20 Page(s): 527 - 529
    07/23/2019 Authors: Evans HL; Evans H; Lober W; Lavallee D; Tejedor SC; Dellinger EP; Hedrick T; Huang S; Pollock D; Samareh A
  • Preventability of hospital onset bacteremia and fungemia: A pilot study of a potential healthcare-associated infection outcome measure.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 40 Page(s): 358 - 361
    03/01/2019 Authors: Dantes RB; Rock C; Milstone AM; Jacob JT; Chernetsky-Tejedor S; Harris AD; Leekha S
  • Improved Identification of Venous Thromboembolism From Electronic Medical Records Using a Novel Information Extraction Software Platform.
    Med Care Volume: 56 Page(s): e54 - e60
    09/01/2018 Authors: Dantes RB; Zheng S; Lu JJ; Beckman MG; Krishnaswamy A; Richardson LC; Chernetsky-Tejedor S; Wang F
  • The Wild Wild West: A Framework to Integrate mHealth Software Applications and Wearables to Support Physical Activity Assessment, Counseling and Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction.
    Prog Cardiovasc Dis Volume: 58 Page(s): 584 - 594
    01/01/2016 Authors: Lobelo F; Kelli HM; Tejedor SC; Pratt M; McConnell MV; Martin SS; Welk GJ
  • Comparison of a silver-coated needleless connector and a standard needleless connector for the prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 36 Page(s): 294 - 301
    03/01/2015 Authors: Jacob JT; Chernetsky Tejedor S; Dent Reyes M; Lu X; Easley KA; Aurand WL; Garrett G; Graham K; Holder C; Robichaux C
  • Automated radiology data and information transfer: a pilot study at emory healthcare in conjunction with the ACR.
    J Am Coll Radiol Volume: 11 Page(s): 1087 - 1089
    11/01/2014 Authors: Farooki S; Bhargavan-Chatfield M; Sebastian V; Knighton J; Conde JM; Applegate KE; Chernetsky Tejedor S
  • Microbial biofilms on needleless connectors for central venous catheters: comparison of standard and silver-coated devices collected from patients in an acute care hospital.
    J Clin Microbiol Volume: 52 Page(s): 823 - 831
    03/01/2014 Authors: Perez E; Williams M; Jacob JT; Reyes MD; Chernetsky Tejedor S; Steinberg JP; Rowe L; Ganakammal SR; Changayil S; Weil MR
  • Electronic documentation of central venous catheter-days: validation is essential.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 34 Page(s): 900 - 907
    09/01/2013 Authors: Tejedor SC; Garrett G; Jacob JT; Meyer E; Reyes MD; Robichaux C; Steinberg JP
  • Distribution of pathogens in central line-associated bloodstream infections among patients with and without neutropenia following chemotherapy: evidence for a proposed modification to the current surveillance definition.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 34 Page(s): 171 - 175
    02/01/2013 Authors: Steinberg JP; Robichaux C; Tejedor SC; Reyes MD; Jacob JT
  • Temporary central venous catheter utilization patterns in a large tertiary care center: tracking the "idle central venous catheter".
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 33 Page(s): 50 - 57
    01/01/2012 Authors: Tejedor SC; Tong D; Stein J; Payne C; Dressler D; Xue W; Steinberg JP
  • Survey of infection control programs in a large national healthcare system.
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Volume: 28 Page(s): 1401 - 1403
    12/01/2007 Authors: Talbot TR; Tejedor SC; Greevy RA; Burgess H; Williams MV; Deshpande JK; McFadden P; Weinger MB; Englebright J; Dittus RS
  • Pathologic features in steroid and nonsteroid associated osteonecrosis.
    Clin Orthop Relat Res Page(s): 149 - 161
    11/01/1999 Authors: Chernetsky SG; Mont MA; LaPorte DM; Jones LC; Hungerford DS; McCarthy EF
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