Hospital Medicine News

A hospital in California offered patients who tested positive for HIV in the emergency department an initial 14-day supply of ART, believing it would minimize treatment barriers and encourage them to seek outside care.

ORLANDO — A hospital reduced the rate of hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile infection with a standardized system for early recognition and testing, researchers found.

ORLANDO — Staff at a hospital that saw more than 100 cases of mpox in its emergency department collaborated to design an infection control protocol to simplify the response, safely care for patients and prevent further transmission.

ORLANDO — Business intelligence software helped improve hand hygiene compliance by making data available and easily accessible in real time, researchers shared at the APIC 2023 meeting.

Few patients hospitalized for alcohol use disorder, or AUD, were treated with approved medications that could help to enable behavior change, a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

ORLANDO — An automated hand hygiene monitoring system improved hand hygiene compliance at a New Jersey hospital, according to results presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual conference.

The risk for bacteremia was low — just over 1% — among children and young adults with sickle cell disease who presented at the emergency department with a fever, according to the results of a large study published in JAMA Network Open.

ORLANDO — An initiative that focused on surgical patients’ paths from pre-op meetings to hospital discharge reduced neurosurgical infections by more than 80% over 2 years at a Pittsburgh hospital, researchers reported.

Interventions based on Choosing Wisely guidelines significantly reduced rates of antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract infections at safety-net hospitals participating in a pay-for-performance program, researchers found.

ORLANDO — Staff at a children’s hospital in Virginia collaborated to go almost a year without a central line-associated bloodstream infection, researchers reported.