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A compounding-pharmacy assessment tool developed by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) can provide critical guidance for hospitals in the wake of the national meningitis outbreak.
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"By the time we learned this was a problem around the country, the information from Tennessee had already narrowed it down to what the problem was. [It was] a textbook case of how to do it right." Paul Jarris, MD, executive director of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
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This retrospective, multicenter study found that nighttime intensivist staffing is associated with lower patient mortality only in ICUs that lack mandatory daytime intensivist staffing.
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Hand hygiene was more likely to be performed when the first person entering the room or the attending physician (regardless of order) performed hand hygiene.
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This study of potentially life-threatening changes in patient condition during trips to the radiology department of a large academic medical center found that such events occurred about once a week, involved both ward and ICU patients who had comorbidities and high overall mortality, and were often unanticipated by vital sign changes or other recognized warnings.
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Limited data on the use of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy suggests it is associated with improvement in physiologic parameters.
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In this paper, the authors performed a pharmacoepidemiologic study on the relationship between azithromycin, a frequently used broad-spectrum macrolide antibiotic, and cardiovascular death. The authors analyzed data from the Tennessee Medicaid program.
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Lorcaserin for weight loss; statins and fatigue; treatment-resistant gonorrhea; hydrocodone classification changes; USPSTF recommendations; and FDA actions.
