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Beta-blockers and noncardiac surgery; prenatal medication exposure and risk of autism; reasons for statin discontinuations; and FDA actions.
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As a federal program rolls out to award providers with incentives for achieving meaningful use in electronic health records, wide measure-by-measure variation can jeopardize the validity of electronic reporting.
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A nonrandomized, observational, comparative multicenter cohort study was conducted at 17 European medical centers. Patients treated with ampicillin+ceftriaxone (AC) were generally more ill at baseline than patients treated with ampicillin+gentamicin (AG).
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Bacteria were present on the cell phones of all hospital clinicians studied, with potentially pathogenic microorganisms isolated from 29% of them. Contamination with pathogens was found more commonly with smart phones than with non-smart phones, and by multivariable analysis no other factor was associated with this difference.
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The Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation registry is a large, prospective registry of in-hospital cardiac arrests that analyzes data to promote quality improvement. In this paper, Chan and colleagues report the long-term outcomes in Medicare-age patients who suffered an in-hospital cardiac arrest and survived to discharge.
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Following an index episode of recurrent cellulitis, penicillin decreased the rate of recurrent leg cellulitis during a 12-month prophylactic period as compared with placebo, but this effect was not observed to be sustained.
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The best example in a single disease may be tuberculosis, which has resurged and been vanquished again so many times it inspired the term the U-shaped curve of concern.
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Infection preventionists have generally weathered the Great Recession in good shape, though the field remains in flux as old school IPs leave and a new wave of IPs from more diverse backgrounds enter the field.
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Already finalizing an infection control survey for hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded the scope of the program to assess compliance with quality improvement and discharge planning during the same visit.
