Hospital Medicine News

People with virally suppressed HIV who are hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia do not have a higher mortality risk than people without HIV, according to a study.

A multicenter study identified factors associated with mortality among patients with Candida auris bloodstream infection.

Medicine was an interesting thought as I was growing up with no medical people in my family.

Women are less likely to be prescribed pain relief medications compared with men when treated in EDs, findings from a retrospective analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested.

Diagnostic stewardship helped reduce the number of inappropriate tests ordered for Clostridioides difficile by 20 percentage points in a Florida health care system, according to a study.

Although daptomycin remains more expensive than vancomycin, it is a “suitable alternative” to daptomycin for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy because it results in less health care utilization, researchers reported.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America released updated guidelines on complicated intra-abdominal infections for the first time since 2010.

Between initial presentation in the ED and hospital discharge, 56.7% of veterans experienced a change in their pneumonia diagnosis, according to results published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Health care-associated violence in pediatrics often goes unreported and mostly involves people other than the patient, according to findings from two studies published in Pediatrics.

Adults treated in EDs with established sepsis alert systems benefited from reduced mortality risk and length of hospitalization compared with facilities with no alert system, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.