Search results for "Antibiotics"
February 23, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/23/
CRP-guided or 7-day regimens noninferior to 14 days of antibiotics for bacteremia
While rates of clinical failure for C-reactive protein (CRP)-guided antibiotic treatment duration and fixed seven-day treatment were noninferior to fixed 14-day treatment in a randomized trial, interpretation of the results was limited by a large noninferiority margin and low event rate.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/10/4.htm
10 Jun 2020
January 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/
Most inpatients with sepsis did not have antibiotic-resistant pathogens, but two-thirds received broad-spectrum therapy
After detailed risk adjustment, both inadequate and unnecessarily broad empiric antibiotic therapy were associated with higher mortality in patients admitted with culture-positive community-onset sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/22/3.htm
22 Apr 2020
October 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/
Automatic antibiotic stewardship
One health system added a best practice alert to the electronic health record and notified clinicians when specific criteria suggesting a viral illness were met.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/automatic-antibiotic-stewardship.htm
15 Jan 2020
Postop antibiotics may not be needed for cholecystectomy patients with acute calculous cholecystitis
Postoperative antibiotics don't appear to lower the rate of infection in patients who undergo cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/16/2.htm
16 Jul 2014
Syncope, sepsis resuscitation, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/recent-research.htm
15 Oct 2020
Reducing unnecessary antibiotic use in CAP
Testing and treatment are rapidly evolving for inpatients with community-acquired pneumonia.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/community-acquired-pneumonia.htm
15 Jun 2017
Nutrition, contrast and AKI, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2020