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This large, multicenter, quality improvement project showed a dramatic reduction in mortality among patients with severe sepsis or septic shock after implementation of a sepsis treatment bundle.
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Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Supplement to Clinical Cardiology Alert, Clinical Oncology Alert, Critical Care Alert, Hospital Medicine Alert, Infectious Disease Alert, Neurology Alert, OB/GYN Clinical Alert, Primary Care Reports.
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Infectious diseases account for a significant percentage of emergency department (ED) visits each year and are frequent sources of litigation.
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In the U.S., tigecycline has received indications for use in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI), complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI), and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) caused by susceptible strains of designated bacteria.
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It has been hypothesized that the cord colitis syndrome, a complication of umbilical-cord hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, is infectious in origin.
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Fluconazole during pregnancy, does lower dose lower risk?; ID consultants lower mortality and cost of hospital stay; Antiphospholipid Syndrome masquerading as infection
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The prevailing theory of Clostridium difficile transmission is that most cases occur after recent exposure to symptomatic patients in health care settings.
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As a result of the shutdown of the federal government, approximately 9000 of the 14,000 CDC employees were placed on furlough. On October 8th, however, 30 of the furloughed employees were recalled to assist in the response to an epidemic of Salmonella Heidelberg infections.
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A mathematical model of three Tdap vaccination strategies supported the authors' conclusion that pregnancy vaccination is an economically efficient method to substantially reduce infant pertussis morbidity and mortality.