Search results for "Infectious Disease"
January issue online and in the mail
This issue's main story analyzes recent guideline changes on treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. ACP Hospitalist will host a related Twitter chat on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. Eastern.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/01/15/5.htm
15 Jan 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/
IDSA guidelines, experts address hydroxychloroquine, other potential COVID-19 therapies
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) made recommendations on using drugs to treat COVID-19, while cardiac groups warned about risks of arrhythmias with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/1.htm
15 Apr 2020
A new kind of stewardship
Patients taking antiretroviral therapy are at risk for medication errors during hospitalization and care transitions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/a-new-kind-of-stewardship.htm
15 Jan 2020
Specific components of antimicrobial stewardship programs associated with improvements
Effective components included postgraduate physician/pharmacy training programs, order sets specific to antimicrobials, systematic de-escalation review, pharmacists and/or infectious disease (ID) attendings on acute care ward teams, and formal ID training of pharmacists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/10/1.htm
10 May 2017
Here, there, but not everywhere
What do a bat with a white nose, rust-colored wheat and your pneumonia patient who winters in Arizona have in common? The answer might be fungus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/04/coverstory.htm
15 Apr 2012
Consult an ID doc, save a life?
Study finds that patients with certain resistant infections, those who were seen by an infectious diseases physician had about half the mortality rate of those who were not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/qaconsult-an-id-doc-save-a-life.htm
15 May 2018
The return of penicillin
How to fight drug resistance without inducing allergic reactions
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/penicillin-comeback.htm
15 Jan 2017
Daptomycin associated with better outcomes than linezolid in VRE bloodstream infections
Treating vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) bloodstream infections with daptomycin was associated with lower rates of treatment failure and 30-day mortality compared to linezolid, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/06/17/3.htm
17 Jun 2015
Defeating C. diff
While Clostridium difficile remains a stubborn infection, new drugs and research findings suggest some ways to more effectively combat it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/defeating-c-diff.htm
15 Jul 2017