Search results for "Antibiotics"
Sputum culture may help guide antibiotic treatment in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia
The three organisms most commonly identified in the sputum of patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia were Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and gram-negative rods not further speciated.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/25/2.htm
25 Oct 2017
July 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/
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
February 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/
Decision tree can predict resistance to antibiotics commonly used for sepsis
The researchers identified factors predicting which patients with gram-negative sepsis had low probability of resistance to meropenem and which had high probability of resistance to piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime, and meropenem.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/07/19/2.htm
19 Jul 2017
Guidelines on resistant gram-negatives
Hospitalists are some of the best antibiotic stewards, according to the lead author of recent guidance that aims to help them manage tricky infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/06/free/guidelines-on-resistant-gram-negatives.htm
6 Sep 2023
November 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/
Ward-level antibiotic use predicts C. difficile risk
Inpatients' risk of developing Clostridium difficile is related to the rate of antibiotic prescribing on their wards, regardless of whether they themselves took an antibiotic, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/04/2.htm
4 Mar 2015
January 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/
Outcomes similar with one or two weeks of antibiotics for gram-negative bacteremia
Although 90-day mortality and readmission rates were not affected by shorter therapy, neither were rates of adverse events such as Clostridium difficile infection.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/19/1.htm
19 Dec 2018