Hospital Medicine News

HOUSTON — The risks for certain hospital-associated infections differ between urban and rural health care facilities, suggesting a nuanced relationship between health equity and the risk for infection, a study found.

HOUSTON — A Staphylococcus aureus screening program paired with genomic sequencing and electronic health data improved a New York hospital’s ability to identify transmissions and patients at high risk, according to a study.

Assessing children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia for certain objective measures of clinical stability could help shorten their stays, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Ever since my third-year clinical rotations in medical school, I can usually predict what will be written about me in my evaluations before seeing them.

Replacing contaminated sinks did not end an outbreak of multidrug-resistant bacteria in a Japanese pediatric ward but other infection prevention measures did, such as forbidding mouth-washing using sink water, researchers reported.

Some common practices to prevent surgical site infections may not be necessary because no studies have shown benefits, according to a preconference presentation before ESCMID Global.

Most patients with all-cause and norovirus-associated acute gastroenteritis have only one health care encounter, primarily in the outpatient setting, researchers found in a study.

The FDA this week approved the antibiotic Zevtera for the treatment of three bacterial infections 17 years after it was first submitted to the agency.

A decades-old AAP program that was created to help pediatricians prevent unintentional injuries in their patients was shown to be effective in the first ever randomized trial testing its use, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

Primary care providers can play an important part in Candida auris detection, according to an expert.