IDStewardship
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Approximately 5-15% of patients requiring mechanical ventilation will develop VAP during their hospitalization. Based on large surveillance data, most regions in the United States have MRSA rates above 30%, therefore, most hospital guidelines in this country likely include an anti-MRSA agent as part of empiric therapy for VAP. .
STAT
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.
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STAT
APRIL 19, 2024
regulators approved several new antibiotics for combating hard-to-treat bacteria during a recent five-year period, hospital doctors instead gave older, generic remedies to more than 40% of patients battling those stubborn pathogens, according to a new analysis. They examined data spanning January 2016 through June 2021 at 619 U.S.
STAT
OCTOBER 18, 2024
The data mark a steady rise in sales under the 340B Drug Discount Program, which requires drugmakers to offer discounts that are typically estimated to be 25% to 50% — but could be higher — off all outpatient drugs to hospitals and clinics that primarily serve lower-income patients. billion in 2016.
STAT
OCTOBER 10, 2022
I first met Wes Ely in 2016, when I wrote about ICU delirium and Ely’s attempts, as a critical-care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to urge fellow health care workers to rethink the use of heavy sedation in ICUs. Well, a lot’s happened since 2016.
IDStewardship
AUGUST 1, 2023
During this period, I had the opportunity to attend many meetings, seminars, conferences and congresses on infectious diseases held both in Hacettepe Hospitals and other institutions and cities. The number of hospitals in our country with a structured and active antimicrobial stewardship team is quite limited.
STAT
DECEMBER 14, 2022
When he was hospitalized in August 2016, hospital staff used a needle to drain 7 liters of fluid from his abdomen. The final years of Carl Hoffer’s life were, in his words, “living hell.” ” His legs were so swollen they’d crack and leak white fluid. Read the rest…
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