June 12, 2024
Connecting with subspecialists on the outside
Freeing up an inpatient bed in a crowded hospital can sometimes be as simple as getting in touch with a subspecialist.
Dapsone-induced methemoglobinemia and hemolytic anemia
A patient being treated for lupus with cutaneous manifestations presented with gradual shortness of breath of about a month's duration.
Continuing metformin linked with lower risk of hospital-acquired complications
Patients who continued metformin upon admission had a lower likelihood of in-hospital complications than matched controls without diabetes, while diabetic patients who discontinued the drug during hospitalization had higher risk than matched controls.
Glucocorticoids prescribed to 1 in 9 ward patients with CAP, real-world data suggest
Glucocorticoids were prescribed in 11.1% of patients hospitalized on medical wards with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) between 2010 and 2020, and these patients had higher inpatient mortality, data from seven Canadian hospitals showed.
Admission of COVID-19 patients to SNFs likely increased cases and related deaths
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that admitted patients with COVID-19 had 6.94 additional new cases per 100 residents than similar facilities that didn't admit patients known to be positive, a study from June 2020 to March 2021 found.
Scores for infective endocarditis in bacteremia patients compared
The HANDOC score has high negative predictive value for identifying infective endocarditis and the 2023 Duke criteria from the International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases beat two other versions for diagnosing the disorder in patients with strep bacteremia, a Swiss study found.
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