Hospital Medicine News

NSAIDs “provide the greatest benefit and least harm” for treating acute pain in children compared with ketamine and opioids, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.

A stand-alone sequencing approach was accurate, cost effective and efficient for analyzing resistant pathogens and determining their health care-associated transmission, researchers found.

Mortality among adults aged 25 to 44 years rose significantly between 2011 and 2023 compared with trends in the early 2000s, results from a cross-sectional study showed.

Febrile infants aged 22 to 60 days were less likely to be hospitalized or receive antibiotics after the AAP published updated recommendations for their management, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

A higher cefazolin dose was not associated with decreased rates of surgical site infections among obese patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, study data showed.

Intervention models checked against electronic medical record data show ways to help improve infection control practices and reduce infections, according to a recent study.

The prevalence of serious head and neck infections among children doubled from 2021 to 2023, according to findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

About one in five individuals who leave the ED without being seen return in the next week, usually around the same time of day, according to the results of cohort study.

The prevalence of intraventricular hemorrhage among preterm infants has not changed over time, but it occurs later in life than it did 20 to 30 years ago, according to the results of a large study published in JAMA Pediatrics.