Hospital Medicine News

Adding aerosolized hydrogen peroxide to hospital infection prevention protocols significantly reduced Clostridioides difficile infections, according to the results of a 10-year study reported in the American Journal of Infection Control.

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America published a white paper that includes guidance on implementing strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in infants in the NICU.

Health care providers said they feel undervalued and unsatisfied with the current health care system, and many are considering leaving the workforce, according to Elsevier Health’s first “Clinician of the Future” report.

Recent findings published in JAMA Network Open validate a blood test that uses biomarkers to determine the severity of a traumatic brain injury and whether a CT scan is warranted.

Surveillance data continue to show that COVID-19 hospitalizations among young children increased fivefold during the omicron wave of SARS-CoV-2 compared with the peak of the delta wave, researchers reported in MMWR.

An increased risk for cognitive decline was associated with adults aged 60 years and older, following severe cases of COVID-19, in Wuhan, China, experts reported in JAMA Neurology.

Here, Kristin Flanary, also known as Lady Glaucomflecken, shares her experience as a critical illness cosurvivor, hoping to highlight the challenges of the families who are at the receiving end of critical illness for their loved one.

The risk for postoperative Staphylococcus aureus infection among children who undergo surgery remains high, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Continued use of dexamethasone after hospital discharge was not associated with a reduction in readmission or mortality among patients with COVID-19, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Interim estimates published Thursday in MMWR indicate that this season’s influenza vaccine has not been effective.