Outpatient Care

The crude rate of hospitalizations for COPD in Canada increased by nearly 70% in 2017 compared with 2002, according to results published in CMAJ.

According to published results, the proportion of outpatient total shoulder arthroplasty procedures has grown from 22% in the first quarter of 2021, when TSA was removed from the CMS inpatient-only list, to 38% in the first quarter of 2022.

Published results showed no differences in successful same-day discharges from an outpatient hospital for patients who underwent the direct anterior, the anterolateral or the posterior approach to total hip arthroplasty.

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NEW ORLEANS — Efficiency, control, patient communication and the ability to leverage technology are integral to outpatient shoulder arthroplasty, according to a presenter at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting.

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy programs are common for conditions that traditionally require weeks or months of parenteral treatment.

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Mutations have allowed SARS-CoV-2 to evade previously effective treatments and preventives that have become a crucial tool for reducing severe COVID-19 and have made treating outpatients with COVID-19 more complicated.

Outpatient antibiotic prescribing fell more than 25% in 2020 compared with earlier years across all ages, but researchers found most of the prescribing was among adults, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.