Hospital Medicine News

Impaired mobility during hospitalization for acute MI may be a risk factor for functional decline among older patients who survived the event, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

WASHINGTON — Cefiderocol, a novel siderophore cephalosporin, was noninferior to high-dose meropenem for the primary endpoint of all-cause mortality 14 days after treatment was started in patients with nosocomial pneumonia caused by gram-negative pathogens, according to results of a randomized phase 3 trial called APEKS-NP.

The concurrent employment of a federal value-based incentive program, coupled with the revision of the surveillance case definition for catheter-associated UTIs, or CAUTIs, resulted in an immediate decline in CAUTIs in 592 hospitals, according to findings published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Advances in science and medicine have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature infants. However, these babies continue to face significant challenges, both immediately after birth and throughout their lives.

According to research published in JAMA, nearly one-quarter of all maternal deaths in the United States from 2013 to 2016 were related to sepsis, and more than a third of those deaths occurred after hospital discharge. Overall, maternal sepsis occurred in around 0.04% of deliveries in the U.S., the researchers reported.

The rate of postoperative opioid prescriptions filled was seven times higher in the United States and Canada than in Sweden, according to a study recently published in JAMA Network Open.

Spending on post-acute care for multiple medical and surgical conditions was 68% to 230% higher among Medicare beneficiaries compared with commercially insured patients, although readmission rates were similar in both groups, according to study findings published in Health Affairs.

State mandates that require both prescribers and dispensers to enter and use prescription drug monitoring programs led to greater reductions in opioid prescriptions and opioid-related hospital use compared with states that had less strict or no mandates, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

The ED to which emergency medical services transport a patient depends on the patient’s race/ethnicity, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open. For example, black and Hispanic patients were less likely to be transported to the most frequent ED destination for white patients residing in the same zip code, researchers said.

Haloperidol and second-generation antipsychotics should not be routinely used to prevent or treat delirium in hospitalized patients based on evidence evaluated in two systematic reviews published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.