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Intervention helps community hospital ICUs adopt evidence-based practices

A multi-pronged quality improvement program helped community hospitals adopt six evidence-based practices in the ICU, a new study reports.

Program sustains reduction in MRSA infections after surgery

An intervention to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus wound infections after cardiothoracic surgery dramatically reduced the infections and sustained the result for at least 30 months, a study found.

Pneumonia guideline adherence increased mortality

A performance-improvement initiative found that compliance with guidelines may actually have increased mortality from pneumonia among intensive care patients.

Nonrespiratory causes of death becoming more common in oxygen-dependent COPD

Mortality rates are decreasing for respiratory disease and increasing for nonrespiratory causes in patients receiving long-term oxygen therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a recent study.

Prescription acetaminophen gets new limit, warnings

Prescription drugs that contain combinations of acetaminophen and other medications will be required to contain no more than 325 mg of acetaminophen per tablet or capsule, the FDA recently announced.

The latest issue is online

The January issue of ACP Hospitalist is online. Included in this issue are stories on getting along with PCPs, early diagnosis of sepsis, and retooling the M&M conference.

And the winner is …

ACP HospitalistWeekly has tallied the voting from its latest cartoon contest, where readers are invited to match wits against their peers to provide the most original and amusing caption.