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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/

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

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/

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

Cases from the Medical College of Wisconsin

A mycotic aneurysm, retroperitoneal hematoma, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/free/cases-from-the-medical-college-of-wisconsin.htm
28 Feb 2024

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

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

January 11, 2023

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/11/

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

Antibiotics with extended anaerobic coverage didn't improve outcomes in aspiration pneumonia

Patients with aspiration pneumonia who received extended anaerobic coverage had no reduction in mortality risk and a significantly higher risk of Clostridioides difficile than those prescribed limited anaerobic coverage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/antibiotics-with-extended-anaerobic-coverage-didnt-improve-outcomes-in-aspiration-pneumonia.htm
28 Feb 2024

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