Practice Management News

Carbapenems were commonly prescribed as targeted therapy for extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales infections despite significant changes in guidance, data show.

The SLE Severe Infection Score-Revised, an updated score for predicting severe infections in systemic lupus erythematosus, is more accurate and feasible than the prior version, according to data published in Lupus Science & Medicine.

Any doctor seeing patients has had to field questions unrelated to their specialty.

When it comes to work-life balance, providers in the past skewed more toward work than life.

The average number of inappropriate antibiotics prescribed monthly decreased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but returned to pre-pandemic levels by late 2021, data show.

Experts say that the management of Q fever, a zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii, is complicated by the lack of clinical guidance on screening protocols, treatment regimens and durations.

The addition of azithromycin to daily trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole treatment among pregnant women with HIV did not reduce the rate of malaria or bacterial sexually transmitted infections at delivery, data show.

Life as a health care professional can be stressful, but there is a quick technique that can combat feelings of tension.

PCR-based West Nile virus testing using whole blood was effective and favored compared with plasma testing as an initial test for infection, researchers reported.

A physician practice owner’s week is spent seeing and caring for patients and managing the day-to-day issues of the practice.