Assistant Professor, Medicine, Tufts Medical Center

Internal Medicine

Doctor Tara C. Lagu, MD practices Internal Medicine. She studied medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Yale University School of Medicine has a rank of 7 in research and a 57 in primary care Tara C. Lagu, MD has written publications. She has 40 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Hospitals Patterns of Use of Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients with Asthma Exacerbation (Hospitals Use of Ventilation in Asthma).' She accepts Medicare.

Publications

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• Direct admission to the hospital: An alternative approach to hospitalization.
• Direct Admission to Hospitals Among Children in the United States.
• Trends in sepsis and infection sources in the United States. A population-based study.
• Association of guideline-based antimicrobial therapy and outcomes in healthcare-associated pneumonia.
• Outcomes associated with a mandatory gastroenterology consultation to improve the quality of care of patients hospitalized with decompensated cirrhosis.
• From hospital to community: Use of antipsychotics in hospitalized elders.
• Use of paracentesis in hospitalized patients with decompensated cirrhosis and ascites: Opportunities for quality improvement.
• Ensuring Access to Health Care for Patients With Disabilities.
• Attitudes of Hospital Leaders Toward Publicly Reported Measures of Health Care Quality.
• Outcomes of patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia: worse disease or sicker patients?
• Variation and Outcomes Associated With Direct Hospital Admission Among Children With Pneumonia in the United States.
• The axes of access--improving care for patients with disabilities.
• Use of Mechanical Ventilation by Patients With and Without Dementia, 2001 Through 2011.
• The impact of hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection on outcomes of hospitalized patients with sepsis.
• Management and Outcomes of Pneumonia among Children with Complex Chronic Conditions.
• Measurement of the quality of care of patients admitted with decompensated cirrhosis.
• Comparative Effectiveness of Ceftriaxone in Combination with a Macrolide Compared with Ceftriaxone Alone for Pediatric Patients Hospitalized with Community Acquired Pn...
• Spending more, doing more, or both? An alternative method for quantifying utilization during hospitalizations.
• Association Between Sedating Medications and Delirium in Older Inpatients.
• Access to subspecialty care for patients with mobility impairment: a survey.
• Income inequality and 30 day outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: retrospective cohort study.
• Patterns of Obstetric Infection Rates in a Large Sample of U.S. Hospitals.
• Epidemiology and outcomes of acute respiratory failure in the United States, 2001 to 2009: A national survey.
• A mixed-methods analysis of patient reviews of hospital care in England: implications for public reporting of health care quality data in the United States.
• Mythmaking in medical education and medical practice.
• Using highly detailed administrative data to predict pneumonia mortality.
• Acute decompensated heart failure is routinely treated as a cardiopulmonary syndrome.
• IDEAS for a healthy baby--reducing disparities in use of publicly reported quality data: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
• Development and validation of a model that uses enhanced administrative data to predict mortality in patients with sepsis.
• Hospitalizations, costs, and outcomes of severe sepsis in the United States 2003 to 2007.
• Physician, monitor thyself: professionalism and accountability in the use of social media.
• The relationship between hospital spending and mortality in patients with sepsis.
• Putting the public back in public reporting of health care quality.
• Patients' evaluations of health care providers in the era of social networking: an analysis of physician-rating websites.
• Effect of patient comorbidities on filling of antihypertensive prescriptions.
• Content of weblogs written by health professionals.
• The impact of concordant and discordant conditions on the quality of care for hyperlipidemia.
• Overdoses among friends: drug users are willing to administer naloxone to others.
• Hospitals Patterns of Use of Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients with Asthma Exacerbation (Hospitals Use of Ventilation in Asthma).

Schools

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• Yale University School Of Medicine

• Rhode Island Hospital Brown University

• Brown University Med School Rhode Island Hospital

• University Penn

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Brown University
• Yale University School of Medicine

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1306943980
NPPES Provider LastName		LAGU
NPPES Provider FirstName		TARA
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		011991001
NPPES Provider State		MA
Specialty Description		Internal Medicine
Total Claim Count		11.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1306943980
Last Name Of The Provider	LAGU
First Name Of The Provider	TARA
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