Articles Tagged With: antibiotic
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Urine Cultures: A Gateway to Antibiotic Overuse
Inappropriate antibiotics use in nursing homes across North America continues driving antibacterial resistance and the risk of Clostridioides difficile infection in the elderly.
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Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection: Better Outcomes With Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Than With Antibiotics
Relative to vancomycin or metronidazole treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, treatment with fecal microbiota transplantation is associated with a reduced risk of bloodstream infection, shorter hospital length of stay, and improved survival.
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Combination Therapy With Daptomycin Plus Beta-Lactam Antibiotics in MSSA Bacteremia
In a retrospective cohort study of 350 patients, the combination of a beta-lactam antibiotic plus daptomycin was not superior to beta-lactam monotherapy in patients with bacteremia due to methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.
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Antibiotic Stewardship: Glass Half Full or Nearly Empty?
Though there has been tremendous progress in antibiotic stewardship efforts over the last decade, a broad and demanding array of research and action is needed if the rise of drug-resistant bacterial infections is to be stemmed, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America reports in a new white paper.
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Feds Mandate Hospitals Develop and Maintain Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
The move is seen as a big step against multidrug-resistant organisms and the misuse of antibiotics.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Smarter Use of PICC Lines; Urine Cultures: A Gateway to Antibiotic Overuse; How Can Vancomycin Dosing Be Improved?
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2019 Community Acquired Pneumonia in Adults Guideline — Not Much New Under the Sun
The 2019 guideline differs from the 2007 version to only a limited extent.
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Routine Drug Prophylaxis in Dentistry Usually Unnecessary, May Cause Patient Harm
With antibiotic stewardship now required in hospitals and increasingly normalized in other healthcare settings, dental offices are something out of an outlier.
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Point Taken: CMS Revisions in Stewardship Regulation
In finalizing a regulation requiring antibiotic stewardship programs in hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made several revisions based on comments from the field.
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CMS Finalizes Drug Stewardship Regulation for Hospitals
In a long-anticipated action, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently finalized its 2016 rule requiring antibiotic stewardship programs in hospitals.