Search results for "Infectious disease"
CA-UTI prevention project worked outside ICUs, but not inside
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program's efforts to build multidisciplinary teams, focus on camaraderie and communication, and attend to failure points may be responsible for its success, according to an editorial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/08/1.htm
8 Jun 2016
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
When it could be Ebola . . .
There are lots of differential diagnoses, too.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/01/ebola.htm
15 Jan 2015
Avoiding beta-lactam therapy in hospitalized patients with self-reported allergies may lead to more adverse events
Developing inpatient programs aimed at accurately identifying beta-lactam allergies to safely promote beta-lactam administration among patients who report allergies is warranted, the authors concluded.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/07/20/3.htm
20 Jul 2016
Single-dose dalbavancin is noninferior to 2 doses for acute bacterial skin infections
In addition to producing similar outcomes, the regimens had similar safety profiles, with nausea being the only event reported in more than 2% of patients in either treatment arm of the randomized trial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/12/09/1.htm
9 Dec 2015
Rethinking cellulitis
Flaws in diagnosis, prescribing are common.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/02/rethinking-cellulitis.htm
15 Feb 2017
Physician gestalt safer but less efficient than prediction models for diagnosing bacteremia
In patients with suspected infection, physicians estimating on their own had fewer false negatives, but two validated prediction models more accurately identified the group of patients who could go without blood cultures because they did not have bacteremia, a Japanese study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/09/physician-gestalt-safer-but-less-efficient-than-prediction-models-for-diagnosing-bacteremia.htm
9 Nov 2022
Contamination frequently occurs when hospital personnel remove protective gear, study finds
Incorrect techniques were observed in 39.5% of simulations, but contamination occurred even in 30% of properly performed removals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/10/21/2.htm
21 Oct 2015
Continuous PPI use associated with C. difficile recurrences
Recurrences of Clostridium difficile were significantly more common among patients who continuously took proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) than among those who didn't, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/11/3.htm
11 Mar 2015
Consult an ID doc, save a life?
A study found that patients with certain resistant infections who were seen by an infectious diseases physician had about half the mortality rate of those who were not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/qa-consult-an-id-doc-save-a-life.htm
15 May 2018