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For patients with injection drug-related invasive infections leaving AMA, oral antibiotic prescription may reduce readmissions
Outcomes were compared among patients who completed a full course of IV antibiotics during hospitalization, received a partial IV course and no antibiotics prescription at discharge against medical advice (AMA), or received a partial IV course and an antibiotics prescription at AMA discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/4.htm
8 Apr 2020
December 14, 2022
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/14/
September 21, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/21/
Incidence of several multidrug-resistant infections in U.S. inpatients declined in recent years
From 2012 to 2017, there was a substantial decrease in the number of infections with several multidrug-resistant pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/5.htm
8 Apr 2020
June 8, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/08/
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
September 14, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/14/
Novel protocol for urine sampling, testing may have reduced CAUTI rates
Urine sampling and testing aimed at minimizing contamination due to urinary or bladder colonization was associated with a significant reduction in rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) and urinary catheter-days in a pre- and postintervention study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/08/19/5.htm
19 Aug 2020
October 12, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/12/
Patients with low-risk S. aureus bacteremia may not need routine imaging
In a retrospective cohort study in the Netherlands, relapse-free survival at 90 days was similar in patients with low-risk S. aureus infection who received additional imaging and those who did not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/17/patients-with-low-risk-s-aureus-bacteremia-may-not-need-routine-imaging.htm
17 Apr 2024