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New guidelines for hospitals' antibiotic stewardship programs

The guidelines include 28 recommendations from an expert panel convened by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/20/1.htm
20 Apr 2016

Heart failure hospitalization increased prescribing of guideline-directed therapy

At admission, only 14.9% of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction were on all indicated medications, and that rate increased to 32.8% at discharge, according to a new analysis of the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Registry.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/heart-failure-hospitalization-increased-prescribing-of-guideline-directed-therapy.htm
21 Jun 2023

New guidelines cover preventive, chronic, acute care for sickle cell disease

New evidence-based guidelines on the management of sickle cell disease were released last week by a group of experts convened by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/09/17/5.htm
17 Sep 2014

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

Clinical guideline offers recommendations on reducing recurrent kidney stones

Drinking more fluid to increase urination may reduce the risk of recurrence of kidney stones, a clinical guideline recommended. Monotherapy with a thiazide diuretic, citrate, or allopurinol can be used if increasing fluid intake is not effective, the guideline also stated.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/11/05/4.htm
5 Nov 2014

Guideline issued on management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction

The American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines released its 2013 guideline on managing ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) last week.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/01/09/3.htm
9 Jan 2013

Sepsis guidelines review old questions, tackle new ones

The lead author of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's latest guideline update highlighted the most important changes for hospitalists to know, including recommendations on the use of fluid and vasopressors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/19/sepsis-experts-review-old-questions-tackle-new-ones.htm
19 Jan 2022