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More broad-spectrum antibiotics used for nosocomial pneumonia, with no clear match to pathogens

Veterans showed similar rates of hospitalizations for pneumonia, including MRSA-caused, from 2006 to 2010, but use of vancomycin nearly doubled during the period.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/05/2.htm
5 Aug 2015

January 2011

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/

Antibiotics may not benefit inpatients with catheters and bacteriuria

Bacteriuria infrequently leads to bacteremia in hospitalized patients, and antibiotic treatment of bacteriuria doesn't seem to affect mortality outcomes, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/10/23/1.htm
23 Oct 2013

Procalcitonin do's and don'ts

Although the optimal use of procalcitonin is still up for debate, there are best practices for getting the most bang for this blood test.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/05/free/procalcitonin-dos-and-donts.htm
5 Jul 2023

Overall inpatient antibiotic prescribing unchanged from 2006 to 2012

There were significant increases in the use of certain antibiotic classes, including third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins, macrolides, glycopeptides, beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations, carbapenems, and tetracyclines.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/28/1.htm
28 Sep 2016

June 2018

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/

Just enough, but not too much, antibiotics for CAP patients

Prudent approaches to treating community-acquired pneumonia in the hospital include achievable goals, such as using the lowest number and spectrum of antibiotics and shortening treatment durations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/05/1.htm
5 Apr 2017