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Compared with matched participants from the general population, patients with hospital-acquired sepsis were at elevated risk for stroke and MI up to 4 weeks after discharge, researchers reported.

The FDA granted premarket approval to Recell, a spray-on-skin agent, to treat burns in patients aged older than 18 years, its manufacturer announced.

Physicians may be overtreating BP in older adults admitted to the hospital for non-CV conditions by intensifying antihypertensive medication at discharge, even if the patients had previously well-controlled outpatient BP, according to a study published in The BMJ.

Duodenoscopes were the likely cause of the first nosocomial transmission of the mobile colistin resistance gene mcr-1 in the United States, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

When adjusting for additional clinical and social variables, hospital variation in readmission rates are reduced, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

From 2008 to 2015, there was a significant shift from ED use to use of non-ED venues, such as urgent care, for the treatment of low-acuity conditions, mainly driven by the high costs of ED visits, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Five unvaccinated children presenting to a children’s hospital in central Pennsylvania — an area with a large population of Amish communities — accounted for nearly one-quarter of all cases of tetanus in the United States between 2005 and 2015, according to research published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. Most of these families were uninsured and accrued over $70,000 in medical costs for hospital stays that lasted up to 22 days.

Older adults presenting to the ED for a ground level fall who received physical therapy services during the initial visit had substantially lower odds of returning to the ED, according to research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Short courses of piperacillin/tazobactam and vancomycin are not associated with a greater risk for moderate to severe acute kidney injury when compared with similar antibiotic combinations, according to results from a study in critically ill patients.

There was a low growth rate for moderately dilated ascending aorta, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open.