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Enlisting hospitalists in the co-management of patients with cancer reduced hospital length of stay, increased hospital capacity for new inpatients and reduced stress among oncologists, according to a study in Journal of Hospital Medicine.

SEATTLE — A hospital replaced sink drains and traps in an ICU to stop the ongoing acquisition of multiple species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and found — paradoxically, researchers said — that it may have caused another outbreak.

Researchers found that pneumonia patients who were switched early from IV to oral antibiotics had shorter hospital stays and fewer days on antibiotics.

SEATTLE — A hospital used real-time whole-genome sequencing to detect genetically related clusters of infection, identify potential sources and stopped further transmission, researchers reported.

SEATTLE — In this video, Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH, attending physician and hospital epidemiologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about a new project to improve nosocomial infection prevention.

A medication reconciliation toolkit offered specific interventions that reduced medication discrepancies during hospitalization, a study published in BMJ Quality and Safety found.

An infectious disease consultation within 3 1/2 days of a diagnosis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia was shown in a study to increase adherence to quality care indicators and decrease hospital stays compared with a later consultation.

Bryan T. Kelly, MD, MBA, will succeed president and CEO of Hospital for Special Surgery Louis A. Shapiro in a phased-in transition that will occur during the course of 2023, according to a press release from Hospital for Special Surgery.

Patients with injection drug use-associated infections were less likely to be readmitted to the hospital or die when they were treated by a clinical team that integrated infectious disease and substance use disorder care, researchers found.

Among patients on incident peritoneal dialysis, higher plasma omeintin-1 level quartile correlates with reduced subsequent hospital admissions and shorter hospital stays, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.