Search results for "Stewardship"
Is your antimicrobial stewardship program ready for a survey?
Experts at IDWeek offered some lessons learned during the first year of The Joint Commission's antimicrobial stewardship standard for acute care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/12/conference-coverage-antimicrobial-stewardship-survey.htm
15 Dec 2017
Solutions to hospital violence
This issue also features the latest news on sickle cell disease, conference coverage on infectious diseases, and a Q&A about Hurricane Maria recovery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/12/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Dec 2017
Let the computer figure it out
Researchers look at how machine learning could change hospital care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/machine-learning-computer-figure-out.htm
15 Jan 2018
Small hospitals may need intensive antibiotic stewardship programs to see meaningful results, study finds
Providing clinicians with education, access to a hotline, data on utilization of antibiotics, and audit and feedback from pharmacists for certain antibiotics did not significantly reduce total or broad-spectrum antibiotic use.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/07/2.htm
7 Mar 2018
Antibiotics and AKI, stroke rehab, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/recent-research.htm
15 Jun 2018
Penicillin allergy associated with risk of MRSA, C. diff, due to use of other antibiotics
Systematically addressing penicillin allergies may be an important public health strategy to reduce the incidence of MRSA and C. difficile among patients with a documented penicillin allergy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/04/5.htm
4 Jul 2018
Longer antibiotic therapy in patients with low procalcitonin during COPD exacerbation increased LOS without reducing readmissions
The retrospective study divided patients by whether they received inpatient antibiotics for more or less than a day, and patients in the former group had a length of stay (LOS) of 3.7 days compared to 2.8 days in the latter.*
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/11/1.htm
11 Jul 2018
Balanced crystalloids vs. saline, antibiotic stewardship, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/recent-research.htm
15 Aug 2018
Procalcitonin: Promise and pitfalls
Uptake of procalcitonin testing has been slow in U.S. hospitals, but experts say the biomarker could help with antibiotic stewardship efforts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/procalcitonin-promise-and-pitfalls.htm
15 Aug 2018
Penicillin allergies, end-of-life care
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/in-the-news.htm
15 Nov 2018