Search results for "Antibiotic Therapy"
What works, what doesn't for diagnosing meningitis, encephalitis
An expert at IDWeek offered advice on managing viral, bacterial, and autoimmune infections—including how to tell them apart.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/18/what-works-what-doesnt-for-diagnosing-meningitis-encephalitis.htm
18 Dec 2024
Two-thirds of patients admitted for pneumonia received excess antibiotic therapy
Antibiotics prescribed at discharge accounted for 93.2% of excess days of therapy in the multihospital study, highlighting “an urgent and unmet need for discharge stewardship,” the authors wrote.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/10/1.htm
10 Jul 2019
April 27, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/27/
Longer antibiotic therapy in patients with low procalcitonin during COPD exacerbation increased LOS without reducing readmissions
The retrospective study divided patients by whether they received inpatient antibiotics for more or less than a day, and patients in the former group had a length of stay (LOS) of 3.7 days compared to 2.8 days in the latter.*
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/11/1.htm
11 Jul 2018
July 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/
Algorithm may help guide antibiotic therapy for staphylococcal bacteremia
The algorithm predefined diagnostic evaluations, antibiotic selection, and duration of therapy, and its outcomes were compared to those in similar patients whose physicians had unrestricted choice of antibiotic and duration of therapy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/03/1.htm
3 Oct 2018
Early antibiotic therapy did not improve outcomes in complicated urinary tract infection
Based on the study's results, physicians might consider supportive treatment and watchful waiting in stable patients until the pathogen causing the complicated urinary tract infection is identified, the authors suggested.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/23/1.htm
23 May 2018
July 12, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/12/
March 29, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/29/
Initially inappropriate antibiotic therapy lengthens sepsis patients' stay by two days
Nearly one-third of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock attributable to Gram-negative organisms receive inappropriate antibiotic therapy at first, which prolongs their hospital stay by two days on average, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/12/4.htm
12 Jan 2011