Hospital Medicine News

Asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile colonization is significantly associated with previous hospitalization, gastric acid suppression, tube feeding and corticosteroid use, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

We are seeing an enormous rise in COVID-19 cases, but as we continue to focus on controlling the pandemic, it is vital that we prevent outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable infectious diseases.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have needed to take alternative approaches to provide care for patients with the novel coronavirus.

A study of U.S. veterans hospitalized with COVID-19 showed 32% developed AKI, with many not fully recovering kidney function by discharge. Black individuals were at greatest risk for AKI and resulting mortality.

Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found a machine-learning model performed well in predicting risk for AKI and need for dialysis in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

The frequency of severe COVID-19 does not appear to differ between those with and those without atopic diseases, according to research presented at this year’s virtual American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

In October, the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that it had established the United States’ fourth — and the Southeast’s first — uterus transplant program.

A novel artificial intelligence-generated score can predict the prognosis of patients who present with COVID-19 in the outpatient setting, according to results from a single-center study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Hospitals in Chicago experienced a significant increase in the detection of acute HIV infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to study results from IDWeek.

Up to a third of women hospitalized with influenza in recent years were pregnant, according to research presented at this year’s virtual IDWeek.