Hospital Medicine News

LISBON, Portugal — A study conducted among health care workers in the United Kingdom demonstrated that longer intervals between COVID-19 vaccine doses produced higher antibody levels, researchers reported here.

LISBON, Portugal — The average number of daily COVID-19 deaths is 6% higher on weekends compared with weekdays, according to a global study presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

LISBON, Portugal — An analysis of antimicrobial resistance at more than 270 U.S. hospitals found some increase during the first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the prior 8 months.

LISBON, Portugal — The risk for death from COVID-19 is three to four times higher than it is from influenza among hospitalized patients requiring oxygen therapy, researchers found.

Room surfaces near patients colonized with Candida auris were commonly re-contaminated within hours of cleaning or disinfection, according to findings presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Meeting.

Prior urine culture susceptibility may help predict future antibiotic resistance in patients with recurrent UTIs, according to data presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Meeting.

Health care personnel with COVID-19 were more likely to report exposure to SARS-CoV-2 at work than in their household or community, especially during periods of high community transmission, CDC researchers found.

Antibiotic timeouts conducted by women pharmacists were less likely to result in an antibiotic change than those conducted by men, according to data presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Meeting.

Study findings presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference continued to show the ability of real-time genomic surveillance to detect nosocomial outbreaks.

Young children were more likely to be infected with the omicron variant than the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 but less likely to experience severe health outcomes, researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.