
Platelet parsimony
Recommendations on the use of platelets in lumbar puncture, central venous catheter placement, and other procedures have changed. The lead author of new guidelines explains.
Recommendations on the use of platelets in lumbar puncture, central venous catheter placement, and other procedures have changed. The lead author of new guidelines explains.
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In a recent survey of academic hospitalist program directors, 47% reported having hired five to nine hospitalist physicians in the past academic year, while 30% had 10 to 19 new hires and 10% more than 20. Most reported that less than a quarter of the new hires had previous experience as hospitalists.
When three hospitals implemented efforts to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs), only the one that made urine cultures conditional on the presence of pyuria successfully reduced days of antibiotic therapy, a pre-post study found.
After an alert was embedded in the electronic health record, naloxone was more often prescribed to patients getting a high-risk opioid prescription at discharge from a Colorado health system, a pre-post study found.
Family members randomized to have a nurse focused on them during an ICU stay had a small but statistically significant improvement in their overall satisfaction and a larger improvements in their ratings of communication, a multicenter Swiss trial found.
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There are many ways to optimize psych consults, including a model that provides proactive involvement of psychiatry teams.
A hospital medicine team worked with the ED and subspecialists to create guidelines for consultations.
The guideline from the American Thoracic Society (ATS) provides recommendations on use of lung ultrasound, antibiotics, and corticosteroids in nonsevere and severe community-acquired pneumonia.
Major device complications and earlier catheter removal were more common in patients receiving outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) with vancomycin than in those who got other medications, a study found.
Patients with pneumonia or bloodstream infection due to carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli were less likely to experience clinical failure with colistin and meropenem that had passed in vitro synergy testing than with nonsynergistic combo therapy or colistin alone, a recent study found.
A hospitalist procedure service implemented a standardized curriculum to teach a point-of-care ultrasound-assisted paramedian approach to lumbar puncture and increased their success rate from 72.6% to 85.4%.
Patients recently hospitalized with an infection appear to have higher heart failure risk. A researcher discusses what to do about it.
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