Hospital Medicine News

More than 20% of patients whose penicillin allergy was disproved in a hospital allergy clinic still had an inaccurate penicillin allergy label in their primary care clinic, revealing a lack of communication between providers, a study found.

The number of emergency department visits for unsupervised pediatric medication exposures decreased by nearly half between 2009 and 2020, CDC researchers reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

For this month’s Infectious Disease News cover story, we touched base with experts in transplant medicine and transplant infectious diseases to discuss recent challenges brought on by the pandemic and the country’s organ shortage crisis.

Antimicrobial stewardship interventions recommended by either female or male clinicians were equally accepted, according to a recent study.

Over three in five affected children do not receive mental health services within 6 months of experiencing a firearm injury, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The FDA on Tuesday approved letermovir for the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in high-risk adult kidney transplant recipients, Merck announced.

Transplant medicine and the field of transplant infectious diseases have faced numerous disruptions and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

A new index that takes neighborhood and community conditions into consideration could be a useful measure for identifying preterm birth risk, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

The AAP said adding around-the-clock pharmacies to hospital emergency departments in the United States could alleviate challenges to getting prescriptions filled immediately.

The FDA has approved IV sulbactam-durlobactam to treat hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia caused by susceptible strains of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex.