Search results for "Infectious disease"
Antibiotics effective, but not as effective as surgery, for acute appendicitis
Antibiotics are effective in treating uncomplicated acute appendicitis, but they aren't proven to be noninferior to standard appendectomy, according to newly published results from a randomized clinical trial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/06/24/4.htm
24 Jun 2015
Inpatient ART errors can cause long-term problems for HIV patients
Antiretroviral therapy is less complex than it used to be, but errors are still common.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/ART-errors.htm
15 Apr 2015
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/
A tasty solution to recurrent Clostridium difficile
Curing recurrent C. diff infections without fecal transplantation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/09/success.htm
15 Sep 2014
When it's not a fever
When you see a patient with a temperature of 101, what do you note in the chart? Probably, “fever,” right? Maybe not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/fever.htm
15 Jun 2011
How to test for, and isolate, TB in the hospital
Although his session was titled “TB in the Hospital,” pulmonary specialist Dean Schraufnagel, MD, began by noting that most tuberculosis patients are treated outside the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/05/06/3.htm
6 May 2015
The ABCs of DRGs
Learn about the history and significance of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/coding-corner-the-abcs-of-drgs.htm
15 May 2019
MKSAP quiz on endocarditis
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program 17 about endocarditis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/mksap-quiz-on-endocarditis.htm
15 Oct 2017
New guidelines issued on contact precautions for C. diff, resistant infections
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America advises discontinuing contact precautions after obtaining between one and three negative cultures in certain cases of drug-resistant infections, among other recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/24/2.htm
24 Jan 2018
Is it time to end routine catheter replacement?
Recent research may change practice nationwide.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/catheter.htm
15 Jan 2013