Search results for "Antibiotic Stewardship"
Pharmacist-led antimicrobial stewardship strategies worked in community hospitals
While both a modified preauthorization intervention and postprescription audit and review intervention were feasible, the latter led to more antibiotic de-escalation and may have decreased overall antimicrobial use.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/21/2.htm
21 Aug 2019
Telemedicine ID consults reduced length of stay for patients with active infections
Remote inpatient infectious disease (ID) consultations also reduced antibiotic days and costs, signifying an antimicrobial stewardship effect, researchers wrote.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/05/01/2.htm
1 May 2019
Automatic antibiotic stewardship
One health system added a best practice alert to the electronic health record and notified clinicians when specific criteria suggesting a viral illness were met.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/automatic-antibiotic-stewardship.htm
15 Jan 2020
Hospital-level antibiotic use associated with rates of hospital-onset C. diff
Hospitals that significantly reduced use of all antibiotics, or specifically fluoroquinolones or third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins, achieved decreases in hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile, the retrospective study showed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/13/3.htm
13 Mar 2019
Vancomycin plus piperacillin-tazobactam associated with higher AKI risk
Vancomycin plus piperacillin-tazobactam was compared to vancomycin monotherapy, vancomycin plus cefepime or carbapenem, and piperacillin-tazobactam monotherapy in the systematic review and meta-analysis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/11/08/1.htm
8 Nov 2017
IDSA updates guidance on managing drug-resistant, gram-negative infections
New treatment recommendations from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) dealt with resistant strains of Enterobacterales, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/26/idsa-updates-guidance-on-managing-drug-resistant-gram-negative-infections.htm
26 Jul 2023
Procalcitonin: Promise and pitfalls
Uptake of procalcitonin testing has been slow in U.S. hospitals, but experts say the biomarker could help with antibiotic stewardship efforts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/procalcitonin-promise-and-pitfalls.htm
15 Aug 2018
Hospitals serve up healthy food
Clinicians strive to improve nutrition inside and outside of the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/hospitals-serve-up-healthy-food.htm
15 Oct 2019
Recurrent C. diff, decision tree for sepsis, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/in-the-news.htm
15 Oct 2017
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