Dr. Lauris C Kaldjian MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Lauris Kaldjian is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Kaldjian 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 Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1989
University of Michigan Medical School 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Eugenic sterilization and a qualified Nazi analogy: the United States and Germany, 1930-1945.
- Patient-physician discussions about physician-assisted suicide.
- A theological response to physician-assisted suicide.
- Survival versus prognosis in Alzheimer disease.
- Use of mechanical and noninvasive ventilation in black and white chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients within the Veterans Administration health care system.
- Factors associated with gastrostomy tube feeding in dementia: a structured literature review.
- Racial differences in mortality among veterans hospitalized for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Dementia, goals of care, and personhood: a study of surrogate decision makers' beliefs and values.
- Goals of care among hospitalized patients: a validation study.
- Code status orders and goals of care in the medical ICU.
- Developing a policy for do not resuscitate orders within a framework of goals of care.
- Healthcare personnel perceptions of hand hygiene monitoring technology.
- Diagnostic errors in primary care: lessons learned.
- Understanding Goals of Care Statements and Preferences among Patients and Their Surrogates in the Medical ICU.
- Communicating evidence in shared decision making.
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