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Stewardship effort reduced medication errors in HIV patients on HAART

Errors were reduced in hospitalized HIV patients who underwent a multidisciplinary stewardship effort involving infectious disease (ID) consultations, according to a study presented last week at IDWeek 2013.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/10/09/4.htm
9 Oct 2013

Tocilizumab approved for COVID-19

The FDA gave full approval to tocilizumab for adults with COVID-19 who are receiving systemic corticosteroids and require supplemental oxygen, noninvasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/25/tocilizumab-approved-for-covid-19.htm
25 Jan 2023

90% of patients with Cryptococcus infections were HIV-negative, study finds

Most (60.8%) of the HIV-negative patients with cryptococcosis had another immunocompromising condition, according to the retrospective study using 2015 to 2019 data from hospitals in Australia and New Zealand.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/90percent-of-patients-with-cryptococcus-infections-were-hiv-negative-study-finds.htm
7 Jun 2023

Guideline addresses viral testing in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

The new American Thoracic Society guideline opposes routine use of nucleic acid-based testing for noninfluenza viral pathogens in outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia but identifies some uses for the tests in inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/12/4.htm
12 May 2021

Encephalopathy in 2023

It can be a challenge to distinguish between delirium and acute encephalopathy, and both encephalopathy and delirium should be documented for correct coding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/11/encephalopathy-in-2023.htm
11 Jan 2023

Injection drug use-associated infective endocarditis carries higher risk of systemic emboli

An international cohort study found that mortality rates were lower when infective endocarditis was associated with injection drug use compared to other causes, and these patients, who were typically young and healthy, less often underwent cardiac surgery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/03/4.htm
3 Feb 2021

Answers and even more questions on COVID-19 vaccines

In a fourth forum from ACP and Annals of Internal Medicine, infectious disease experts Carlos del Rio, MD, FACP, Paul Sax, MD, and Deborah Cotton, MD, MPH, FACP, discussed COVID-19 vaccines and their implementation, as well as other aspects of the pandemic response.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/31/1.htm
31 Mar 2021

Societies publish joint guideline on treatment of adults with nontuberculous mycobacteria

The American Thoracic Society, Infectious Diseases Society of America, European Respiratory Society, and European Society of Clinical Microbiology jointly sponsored development of the guideline, which offers 31 recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/15/4.htm
15 Jul 2020

CDC recommendations on COVID-19 vaccine boosters, new data on vaccine effectiveness

Several groups in the U.S., including health care workers, are now eligible to receive a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at least six months after completing the initial two-dose series.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/29/1.htm
29 Sep 2021

An agenda for hospitalists' research

The pandemic added opportunities and barriers to an already challenged field.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/05/an-agenda-for-hospitalists-research.htm
15 May 2021

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