June 11, 2025
Setting standards for hospital at home
Hospital at home has become a more formalized area of care with new national standards, but there's still work to do, according to a leader in the field.
New COVID-19 vaccines approved for certain groups
The FDA approved new COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Novavax and a test for Alzheimer's, among other recent actions.
Boarding in the ED on the rise before, worsened during pandemic, study finds
In January 2022, when rates of ED boarding in U.S. hospitals peaked, 40.1% of hospitalized patients boarded in an ED for longer than four hours and 6.3% for longer than 24 hours, a cross-sectional analysis of more than 40 million hospitalizations found.
Sodium plus diuretics may improve outcomes in acute decompensated heart failure
Kidney function, weight loss, and length of stay were better in patients hospitalized with decompensated heart failure who received sodium supplementation with diuretics, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Liberal RBC transfusion threshold doesn't improve quality of life in MI with anemia
Compared to a restrictive red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategy, a liberal threshold for transfusion in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) and anemia did not result in significantly different quality of life, according to a new analysis of a randomized trial.
RSV, flu increase risk of secondary S. pneumoniae infection, COVID-19 doesn't, study finds
Having tested positive for influenza or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the past 30 days more than doubled the risk of subsequent Streptococcus pneumoniae infection, but COVID-19 was associated with a decreased risk, according to retrospective data from more than 188,000 hospitalized veterans tested for S. pneumoniae.
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