Hospital Medicine News

COVID-19 placed a strain on infection prevention and control programs, highlighting vulnerabilities that existed before the pandemic, according to experts.

The rate of children presenting with firearm injuries to U.S. hospitals increased by more than 50% during the pandemic, according to a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The prevalence of bacterial infections in hospitalized infants — after rising during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic — fell to prepandemic levels earlier this year, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Shortcomings in hospital linen reprocessing, delivery and intake were identified as a potential route of contamination in a health care-associated mucormycosis outbreak reported in Arkansas.

The SGLT2 inhibitor dapagliflozin was associated with a reduced risk for hospitalization due to any cause in patients with chronic kidney disease with and without type 2 diabetes, according to a post hoc analysis of the DAPA-CKD trial.

The 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule does not reflect the important role infectious disease physicians play in safeguarding public health and is a “serious setback” to the ID workforce, the Infectious Diseases Society of America said.

The FDA announced findings from a preliminary assessment that indicate certain naloxone products may be safely used without a prescription to prevent opioid overdose deaths.

Patients with ceftriaxone-resistant Escherichia coli bloodstream infections generally had worse outcomes compared with patients with ceftriaxone-susceptible E. coli infections, according to a recent study.

Automated text-messaging systems supporting primary care patients following hospital discharge were associated with reductions in the use of acute care resources, a study found.

Autistic women and girls were more likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, as well as be hospitalized for a psychiatric incident, compared with autistic men and boys, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.