Search results for "Antibiotics"
January 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/
More broad-spectrum antibiotics used for nosocomial pneumonia, with no clear match to pathogens
Veterans showed similar rates of hospitalizations for pneumonia, including MRSA-caused, from 2006 to 2010, but use of vancomycin nearly doubled during the period.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/05/2.htm
5 Aug 2015
June 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/
Just enough, but not too much, antibiotics for CAP patients
Prudent approaches to treating community-acquired pneumonia in the hospital include achievable goals, such as using the lowest number and spectrum of antibiotics and shortening treatment durations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/05/1.htm
5 Apr 2017
March 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/03/
Phase 3 trial finds new antibiotic noninferior to daptomycin for MRSA
An industry-funded trial compared ceftobiprole, a cephalosporin, to daptomycin plus optional aztreonam in adults with complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/04/phase-3-trial-finds-new-antibiotic-noninferior-to-daptomycin-for-mrsa.htm
4 Oct 2023
Overall inpatient antibiotic prescribing unchanged from 2006 to 2012
There were significant increases in the use of certain antibiotic classes, including third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins, macrolides, glycopeptides, beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations, carbapenems, and tetracyclines.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/28/1.htm
28 Sep 2016
Advanced dementia and respiratory failure
A case highlights the importance of addressing prognosis before making care decisions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/31/free/advanced-dementia-and-respiratory-failure.htm
31 Jan 2024
Ward-level antibiotic use predicts C. difficile risk
Inpatients' risk of developing Clostridium difficile is related to the rate of antibiotic prescribing on their wards, regardless of whether they themselves took an antibiotic, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/04/2.htm
4 Mar 2015
June 14, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/14/