Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Institute for Healthcare Studies
Northwestern University
750 North Lakeshore Drive
10th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Telephone 312-503-6460
Fax          312-503-2777

abel.kho@nmff.org

Recent Journal Publications

1.     Kho AN, Dexter PR, Warvel J, Commiskey M, Wilson SJ, McDonald CJ.  Computerized Reminders to Improve Isolation Rates of Patients with Drug-Resistant Infections: Design and Preliminary Results.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005:390-4 

2.      Weiner MG, Dorr DA, Garvin J, Kho A, Pifer E, Bates DW.  The Potential of Health Information Technology for Improving Care: What is the Reality?  Texas Medicine 2006 July;102(7):37-44.

3.      Kho AN, Johnston KG, Wilson JS, Wilson SJ.  Implementing an Animated Geographic Information System to Investigate Factors Associated with Nosocomial Infections: A Novel Approach.  American Journal of Infection Control 2006;34:578-82. 

4.      Kho AN, Hui S, Kesterson JG, McDonald CJ.  Which observations from the complete blood count predict mortality for hospitalized patients?  Journal of Hospital Medicine 2007;2:5-12.

5.      Kho AN, Zafar A, Tierney WM.  Information Technology in PBRNs:  The Indiana University Medical Group Research Network (IUMG ResNet) Experience.  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2007;20:196-203

6.      Kho AN, Dexter PR, Warvel JS, Belsito AW, Commiskey M, Wilson SJ, Hui SL, McDonald CJ.  An Effective Computerized Reminder for Contact Isolation of Patients Colonized or Infected with Resistant Organisms.  International Journal of Medical Informatics (In press). 

7.      Kho AN, Dexter PR, Lemmon L, Carey D, Woodward H, Hare S, Doebbeling BN.  Connecting the Dots: Creation of an Electronic Regional Infection Control Network.  Medinfo 2007 (In press).