Search results for "Antibiotic Stewardship"
August ACP Hospitalist now online and in the mail
The latest issue of ACP Hospitalist focuses on putting point-of-care ultrasound into practice and has articles on medical care for refugees, high-altitude hospital medicine, and pulmonary embolism.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/16/5.htm
16 Aug 2017
Automating antimicrobial stewardship
EHR integration of a patient scoring tool improved care quality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/success-story-automating-antimicrobial-stewardship.htm
15 Aug 2017
Heart failure stays and readmissions
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/in-the-news.htm
15 Aug 2017
Training key for point-of-care ultrasound
This issue also features stories on refugee care, high-altitude hospital medicine, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Aug 2017
Antibiotic stewardship programs reduce incidence of C. difficile, multidrug-resistant infections, review finds
The systematic review also found that antibiotic stewardship programs were significantly more effective when implemented along with infection control measures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/06/28/3.htm
28 Jun 2017
1 in 5 inpatient antibiotic regimens results in adverse drug event
Researchers also looked at whether the prescribed antibiotics were clinically indicated and found that 19% of them were not, most commonly due to treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria or noninfectious lower respiratory tract conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/06/21/1.htm
21 Jun 2017
Guidelines released on management of empyema
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery offered recommendations related to clinical presentation, imaging studies, laboratory and pleural fluid analysis, and treatment in patients with possible empyema.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/03/3.htm
3 May 2017
Sepsis still infected with uncertainty
Experts from CHEST 2016 debate screening, fluids, more
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/sepsis-conference-coverage.htm
15 Jan 2017
In the News
Inpatient antibiotic prescribing, bundled payments and joint replacement costs, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/in-the-news.htm
15 Dec 2016
Molecular rapid diagnostic testing outperforms conventional methods in bloodstream infections
Patients who received molecular rapid diagnostic testing had significantly lower odds of mortality when it was used with an antibiotic stewardship program, but not when it was used without stewardship, according to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/10/05/1.htm
5 Oct 2016