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EHRs emerging as leading threat to patient safety, but little oversight
Electronic health records pose significant threats to patient safety. Risk managers are encouraged to take the lead in identifying the threats and reducing patient harm.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Surprise! My Kid Has Chlamydia; More on C. diff. Transmission; Staph. aureus Carriage and Moustaches
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Treatment of Invasive Aspergillosis: Are Two Drugs Better Than One?
Although potential benefit may have been detected in a post hoc subset analysis, the addition of anidulafungin in the initial phase of primary treatment of suspected or documented invasive aspergillosis was not associated with a significant improvement in survival.
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Nasal Screening for MRSA: The New Basis for De-escalation of Empiric Antibiotics?
The high negative predictive value of a negative nasal screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus suggests these patients do not have lower respiratory tract infections caused by the organism.
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Initial Antiretroviral Regimens — New Recommendations
Four of the five recommended initial antiretroviral regimens in treatment-naïve adolescents and adults are based on integrase strand transfer inhibitors.
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Lung Ultrasound to Diagnose Pneumonia in Children
Whether based on history, tachypnea, or X-ray findings, the diagnosis of pneumonia in children is incompletely accurate. Ultrasound is a reasonable alternative tool for the diagnosis of childhood pneumonia.
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Early Benefits of HPV Vaccination
A large study of HPV vaccination among girls 13-14 years of age demonstrated significant reduction of cervical dysplasia that was detectable by 17 years of age, providing justification for not delaying HPV vaccination in girls until older adolescence.
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Early, Goal-directed Therapy of Septic Shock
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: Hemodynamic management did not lead to an improvement in outcome.
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Hospital Wards with Higher Rates of Antibiotic Prescribing Are Associated with Increased Risk for C. difficile Infection
A retrospective observational study found that among hospitalized patients, ward-level antibiotic prescribing was associated with a significantly increased risk for C. difficile infection beyond what would be expected with patient-level antibiotic use.
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Pneumonia in U.S. Children Requiring Hospitalization
SYNOPSIS: Two thousand six hundred thirty-eight children with a clinical diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were enrolled in a prospective surveillance study. Eighty-nine percent had radiographic evidence of pneumonia. The median age of children hospitalized was 2 years, with the highest rates seen in children younger than 2 years. Respiratory viruses were the most commonly detected pathogens.