Antibiotic misconceptions persist in Medicaid-insured parents
1. Parents who were younger than 30 years old, did not attend college, and insured by Medicaid were less likely ...
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Publication of pneumonia antibiotic guidelines changed prescribing trends
1. Publication of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines for children was associated with decreased use of wide-spectrum antibiotics. 2. Proactive dissemination ...
Antibiotic stewardship program for asymptomatic bacteriuria may be effective
1. In a major Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the interventional campaign, Kicking CAUTI: No Knee-Jerk Antibiotics, was effective at significantly ...
Higher antibiotic dose for C-section prophylaxis in obese
1. Obese women who received 3 grams of cefazolin prior to cesarean delivery were more likely to achieve clinically ...
FDG-PET may guide antibiotic therapy in vascular graft infections
1. In a prospective cohort study of 25 patients with prosthetic vascular graft infections treated with systemic antibiotics, the use ...
STOP-IT trial supports fixed-duration antibiotic therapy for intraabdominal infections
1. Rates of surgical site infection, recurrent intraabdominal infection, or death within 30 days were similar in patients with intraabdominal ...
Variation in NICU antibiotic use not linked to outcomes
1. Antibiotic use across 127 neonatal intensive care units (NICU) in California varied 40-fold, ranging from 2.4% to 97.1% of ...
Alternative outpatient antibiotics as effective as standard antibiotic injections for severe infantile infections
1. This randomized, open label, equivalence trial showed that an outpatient combination of parenteral and oral antibiotic therapy was equally ...
Etiology of pediatric bacteremia and empiric treatment time vary
1. From 2001 to 2011, there was a decrease in the rate of vaccine-preventable bacteremia and a concomitant increase in ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind October 6 – October 13, 2014
In this section, we highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the past week. Prevalence ...
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