August 20, 2025
Diagnose dizziness
A hospitalist encourages his peers to brush up on their bedside skills for dizzy inpatients.
A new pneumonia score
Internal medicine physicians built a score that predicted mortality risk better than the CURB-65.
Dalbavancin similar to standard care for complicated S. aureus bacteremia
Patients with complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia who were randomized to two doses of dalbavancin had similar outcomes at 70 days compared with those who received four to eight weeks of standard IV therapy, a multicenter trial found.
Postdischarge intervention for sepsis patients had mixed results, trial finds
A sepsis transition and recovery intervention did not reduce a primary composite outcome of readmission or mortality within 90 days, but results of the seven-hospital trial did suggest that mortality may have been decreased at the cost of more readmissions.
Continuing immunosuppressive drugs when sick didn't change risk of serious infection
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or axial spondyloarthritis who were randomized to continue their medications when they got any kind of infection had similar outcomes as those who stopped the medications while they were sick, a Dutch trial found.
Atrial natriuretic peptide levels may help predict readmission risk in HF
Hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction who had atrial natriuretic peptide levels above 113 pg/mL at discharge were more likely to be rehospitalized within one year than those with lower levels, according to a study in Japan.
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