Scholars@Duke
Christopher Shoff

Christopher Shoff

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Scholarly Works

Impact of Education and Data Feedback on Antibiotic Prescribing for Urinary Tract Infections in the Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis.

Journal article Clin Infect Dis · September 30, 2022 BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are often misdiagnosed or treated with exceedingly broad-spectrum antibiotics, leading to negative downstream effects. We aimed to implement antimicrobial stewardship (AS) strategies targeting UTI prescribing in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Navigating the 2021 update to the IDSA/SHEA Clostridioides difficile guidelines: An ethical approach to equitable patient care.

Journal article Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol · 2022 The 2021 focused update to the Infections Diseases Society of America/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (IDSA/SHEA) guidelines for management of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) prioritizes the use of fidaxomicin over vancomycin for th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Uncommon Yeasts and Molds Causing Human Disease

Book section · January 1, 2021 With advances in modern medicine, patients are now living with increasingly complex medical comorbidities, and often with increasingly fragile immunity. As a result, larger populations are susceptible to infections from once infrequently seen fungal opport ... Full text Cite

Staphylococcus aureus Prostatic Abscess in the Setting of Prolonged S. aureus Bacteremia.

Journal article Case Rep Infect Dis · 2020 Staphylococcus aureus rarely causes prostatic abscess. We report five cases of S. aureus prostatic abscess in the setting of bacteremia at our institution that occurred between 12/2018 and 05/2019. Three of the cases were caused by MRSA, and four of the pa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk Factors Associated With Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Program Failure Among Intravenous Drug Users.

Journal article Open Forum Infect Dis · 2017 Sixty-one percent of intravenous drug users (IVDUs) who received outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) failed treatment. Hospital readmission and adverse drug reactions occurred in 25%. By multivariate analysis, time since last IVDU was associate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Loss of imprinting of IGF2 and the epigenetic progenitor model of cancer.

Journal article Am J Stem Cells · 2012 Among the hypotheses discussing cancer formation, the cancer stem cell (CSC) theory is one receiving widespread support. One version of this theory states that changes in otherwise healthy cells can cause formation of tumor- initiating cells (TICs), which ... Link to item Cite