Search results for "Infectious disease"
How to test for, and isolate, TB in the hospital
Although his session was titled “TB in the Hospital,” pulmonary specialist Dean Schraufnagel, MD, began by noting that most tuberculosis patients are treated outside the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/05/06/3.htm
6 May 2015
MKSAP quiz on endocarditis
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program 17 about endocarditis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/mksap-quiz-on-endocarditis.htm
15 Oct 2017
Procalcitonin testing saves two days of antibiotic use
Using procalcitonin testing to guide antibiotic therapy reduces health care costs without affecting clinical outcomes or length of stay, according to a new meta-analysis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/20/4.htm
20 Jul 2011
New guidelines issued on contact precautions for C. diff, resistant infections
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America advises discontinuing contact precautions after obtaining between one and three negative cultures in certain cases of drug-resistant infections, among other recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/24/2.htm
24 Jan 2018
A closer look at HAP
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is both more dangerous and more complex than previously thought, says the author of a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/12/a-closer-look-at-hap.htm
12 Jul 2023
Is it time to end routine catheter replacement?
Recent research may change practice nationwide.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/catheter.htm
15 Jan 2013
In the News
GME financing and workforce needs, antibiotic stewardship programs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/07/in-the-news.htm
15 Jul 2016
More hospitals fight MRSA with universal screening
Some experts believe that screening and isolating patients with MRSA is the best way to control the infection. But are “search and destroy” methods the right call?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/mrsa.htm
15 Jul 2007
Stewardship effort reduced medication errors in HIV patients on HAART
Errors were reduced in hospitalized HIV patients who underwent a multidisciplinary stewardship effort involving infectious disease (ID) consultations, according to a study presented last week at IDWeek 2013.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/10/09/4.htm
9 Oct 2013
IDSA guidelines aim to reduce death, disability and cost of prosthetic joint infections
Multispecialty physician teams need to work together to reduce disability, death and costs associated with the ever-growing number of prosthetic joint infections, according to the first guidelines on the topic by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/12/12/4.htm
12 Dec 2012