Search results for "Infectious disease"
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/
Future of antibiotics worries infectious disease experts
At the Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting last fall, one of the issues that most riled the experts was antibiotics, specifically the lack of them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/idsa.htm
15 Jan 2010
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
Telehealth-based antimicrobial stewardship program worked in 2 community hospitals
The program, which included remote consults with infectious disease physicians, led to reductions in broad-spectrum antibiotic use and antimicrobial expenditures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/11/3.htm
11 Sep 2019
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
Alternatives to drugs
This issue looks at antibiotic resistance, opioid prescribing, and patients' social needs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Mar 2019
Yeast of burden
Five things to know about Candida auris.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/candida-auris.htm
15 Mar 2017
IDSA releases new guidelines for treatment of patients with aspergillosis
The recommendations update the 2008 guidelines with increased evidence for antifungal therapies and diagnostic tests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/07/13/3.htm
13 Jul 2016
Hospitalist involvement needed to treat opioid epidemic
Despite rising admissions related to opioid use disorder, few hospitalists are obtaining the expertise to prescribe medications for addiction. Experts say they should.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/hospitalist-treat-opioid-epidemic.htm
15 Oct 2017
Drug-associated endocarditis on the rise
Hospitals face consequences of opioid addiction and difficult choices about treating endocarditis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/drug-associated-endocarditis.htm
15 Oct 2017