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Primary care, discharging, and admitting physicians disagree about readmission causes

The physicians most commonly cited factors related to patient understanding and ability to self-manage as contributing causes to readmission.

Readmissions after intracerebral hemorrhage often related to infection, study finds

Of 24,540 index intracerebral hemorrhage admissions in the study, 14.5% had an unplanned readmission, and 22% of those had a primary diagnosis code related to infection.

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.

Pharmacist-run antimicrobial stewardship programs may be useful in hospitals without ID subspecialists

A project in South African hospitals aimed at reducing antibiotic consumption by targeting prolonged duration of use, use of multiple antibiotics, and use of redundant antibiotic coverage.

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