Hospital Medicine

ContagionLive releases their latest e-book on this year's flu season, which includes expert-led opinions and interviews.

Only 5 individuals of 195 who received liver transplantation had HCC reoccur more than 3 years following surgery.

There has recently been more community spread of C difficile infections.

Various factors decreased the likelihood of achieving SVR, including male gender, cirrhosis, recent injecting drug use, and previous DAA treatment.

Fecal microbiota transplantation recipients did gain weight following the procedure.

Derek Jones talks about how the pandemic will shape healthcare in the coming years.

The FDA has yet to rule on twice-daily pill.

A significant decrease of -55.3 insulin fills per week during the pandemic was observed, in comparison to before the pandemic.

An estimated 23% of healthcare personnel contract influenza annually.

There was a significant risk-adjusted trend toward decreasing inpatient mortality from 8.7% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2018 for readmissions within 30 days.

Sulfonylurea and/or insulin deintensification occurred in fewer than 50% of older adults with diabetes within 100 days of a hypoglycemia-associated ED visit.

Between 2011-2018, hospital admissions for CDI has decreased dramatically.

Proportion of eyes with IOP-related events supported monitoring in eyes treated with anti-VEGF therapy for macular edema associated with CRVO or HRVO for up to 60 months.

Phase 3 data show the solution works as fast 15 minutes and lasts for up to 6 hours, to improve near vision without impacting distance vision.

Hospital systems were able to effectively mitigate challenges during COVID-19, with 24-hour time-to-surgery benchmarks unchanged from before to after the pandemic.

Data show participants with early glucocorticoid use were more likely to be prescribed a biologic by 12 months, in comparison to non-users.

Dr. Feuerstadt presented data about RBX2660 during the recent ACG 2021 meeting.

Approximately 50% of children with laboratory-confirmed influenza in 2015 - 2016 were treated with antivirals, despite recommendations on their use.

Hospitalized patients were more likely to have impairments in attention, executive functioning, and category fluency compared to those in the outpatient group.

In all visits, data show 23.8% were virtual, 8.2% were in-person at home, and 68.0% were in-person and onsite.

Data show no significant improvement in pain, function and alignment scores over 26 weeks in the PRP injection group, compared to placebo.

This patient group had higher odds of death and longer lengths of hospital stays.

In older patients receiving medication intensification, no differences were seen in the risk of severe hyperglycemia, severe hypoglycemia, or death at 1 year.

Lactate dehydrogenase levels were significantly higher in patients with Influenza A.

Over the 5-year follow-up period, 94 of 170 participants had 1 or more long lapses in care, while 50 participants had short lapses only.

Many of the measures put in place because of COVID-19 have also helped to reduce the rates of C difficile infections.

Recent studies have shown the majority of potential FMT donors are ultimately rejected.

Recurrent CDI, severe CDI, and the number of stools were linked to lower Cdiff32 scores.

Dr. Robert Califf previously ran the FDA in 2016 and 2017 under former President Barack Obama.

Hospitalization rates from the baseline to Cycle 3 decreased 19% from 0.52/person/year to 0.43/person/year