Hospital Medicine News

ORLANDO — A children’s hospital used decolonization protocols to drive down rates of MRSA in three intensive care units by more than 40%, according to data reported at a medical conference.

Wearable activity trackers were linked to higher physical activity and improved physical function in hospitalized adults, although they did not influence hospitalization outcomes like risk for readmission, a recent study found.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was ranked No. 1 on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best children’s hospitals for the first time.

HOUSTON — A surface hygiene surveillance program could help investigators identify the source of hospital outbreaks or possibly even prevent them in the first place, according to a study.

FDA advisors recommend that future COVID-19 vaccines be monovalent, targeting XBB sublineages of the omicron variant, after data showed that bivalent vaccines are less effective against currently circulating variants.

Hospitalizations that involved fungal infections increased by more than 8% in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years, researchers found.

HOUSTON — An automated plate reading system for urine cultures was accurate and easy to use, which could create a more efficient urine culture workflow, researchers reported at ASM Microbe.

The AMA adopted three new policies regarding firearm violence on the final day of its House of Delegates meeting, one of which advocates for physicians to be able to petition courts to temporarily remove firearms from high-risk patients.

HOUSTON — IV treatment with a metallo-beta-lactam inhibitor could be an effective strategy to fight resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, a researcher reported here.

HOUSTON — Data from a cloud-based surveillance system showed a substantial increase in cases of Candida auris in the United States during a recent 6-month period, researchers reported at ASM Microbe.