Search results for "Infectious disease"
October 12, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/12/
October 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/
A new kind of stewardship
Patients taking antiretroviral therapy are at risk for medication errors during hospitalization and care transitions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/a-new-kind-of-stewardship.htm
15 Jan 2020
Rethinking cellulitis
Flaws in diagnosis, prescribing are common.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/02/rethinking-cellulitis.htm
15 Feb 2017
The return of penicillin
How to fight drug resistance without inducing allergic reactions
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/penicillin-comeback.htm
15 Jan 2017
Consult an ID doc, save a life?
Study finds that patients with certain resistant infections, those who were seen by an infectious diseases physician had about half the mortality rate of those who were not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/qaconsult-an-id-doc-save-a-life.htm
15 May 2018
Ceftazidime-avibactam and doripenem equally effective for complicated inpatient UTI
The findings are consistent with previous preclinical and clinical studies and show that ceftazidime-avibactam could be an alternative to carbapenems, reducing use of that drug class, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/22/3.htm
22 Jun 2016
Hospitalist involvement needed to treat opioid epidemic
Despite rising admissions related to opioid use disorder, few hospitalists are obtaining the expertise to prescribe medications for addiction. Experts say they should.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/hospitalist-treat-opioid-epidemic.htm
15 Oct 2017
IDSA releases new guidelines for treatment of patients with aspergillosis
The recommendations update the 2008 guidelines with increased evidence for antifungal therapies and diagnostic tests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/07/13/3.htm
13 Jul 2016
IDSA guidelines, experts address hydroxychloroquine, other potential COVID-19 therapies
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) made recommendations on using drugs to treat COVID-19, while cardiac groups warned about risks of arrhythmias with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/1.htm
15 Apr 2020