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As older Americans continue to shoulder COVID-19 burden, treatments are underutilized
As older Americans continue to shoulder much of the COVID-19 burden, new data show that most went without a vaccine last winter and that those who got sick rarely received antivirals.
Study: Virally suppressed HIV does not increase mortality risk with pneumonia
People with virally suppressed HIV who are hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia do not have a higher mortality risk than people without HIV, according to a study.
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Daptomycin a ‘suitable alternative’ to vancomycin for OPAT
Although daptomycin remains more expensive than vancomycin, it is a “suitable alternative” to daptomycin for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy because it results in less health care utilization, researchers reported.
Facility doubles infection prevention staff, decreases hospital-related infections
A Florida hospital doubled the size of its infection prevention staff over a 4-year period and saw a substantial decrease in hospital-related infections, researchers reported at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual meeting.
Q&A: What is the ID clinician’s role in end-of-life care?
Patients receiving infectious diseases consultation over the past decade were increasingly complex, generally sicker and more likely to die soon after a consultation was performed.
Clearing the air: Healio launches special report on medical cannabis
Healio has launched a new special report on medical cannabis that summarizes the current scientific research and incorporates expert opinion.
Suicides account for more than half of youth firearm deaths in 19 states
Among people aged 10 to 19 years who died due to firearms during a recent 6-year period, more than half of the deaths in 19 states were attributed to suicide, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Standard infection control prevented C. auris spread in dialysis facility
Standard infection prevention and control procedures prevented the spread of Candida auris at a Tennessee dialysis facility despite two patients there being colonized for up to 4 months during treatment, researchers reported.
Natural language processing can inform real-time MDRO screening
HOUSTON — Natural language processing could reduce the need for manual chart reviews to determine a patient’s risk for carrying or being infected with multidrug-resistant organisms, according to a study.
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