Nursing home residents’ guts are a ‘reservoir’ for antibiotic resistance; study … Getting shingles linked to higher risk of cognitive decline … Savannah-area nursing home evacuated after floodwaters...
Newly discharged patients pose superbug risk to family members, even if they never had the infection,...
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 10, 2024
When a person is discharged from a hospital, it’s usually a happy moment — but not if they’re bringing an antibiotic-resistant superbug home with them. That’s the case for many patients, a new...
Antibiotic use declined in VA hospitals after pandemic broke out
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 08, 2024
Antibiotic prescriptions decreased substantially after the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals. The report was published Wednesday in Infection...
Suspected sepsis cases linked to overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 05, 2024
About half of suspected sepsis cases account for broad-spectrum antibiotic use — but a lot of these cases don’t require the medications at all, according to a study published June 27 in JAMA Network...
Antibiotic linked to higher death risk in people with sepsis
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Kristen Fischer
May 16, 2024
People believed to have sepsis who take piperacillin-tazobactam (Zosyn) and vancomycin have a 5% absolute mortality increase at 90 days compared with those who take cefepime and vancomycin, a new study...
Program lowers multidrug-resistant infections in nursing homes, hospitals
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 02, 2024
Regional efforts to curb multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in long-term care facilities and other healthcare settings was linked to fewer cases, hospitalizations and deaths, as well as reduced costs,...
Clinical briefs for Friday, Feb. 9
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 09, 2024
Music is a mental, physical health booster … 1 in 5 Indian adults have mild neurocognitive disorder, data shows … Vaccine-makers eye antibiotic resistance as new goal … Report: FDA has weak oversight...
Mayo Clinic’s antibiotic stewardship intervention cut unnecessary prescribing, study reveals
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 27, 2023
Mayo Clinic’s multifaceted outpatient antibiotic stewardship intervention lowered unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory infections, according to a new study. The report was published...
Study highlights how VRE spreads — and how nursing homes can stop it
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 15, 2023
Antibiotic exposure and dirty hands were factors linked to nursing home contamination with the multidrug-resistant bacteria vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, or VRE, a new study finds.
Antimicrobial resistance terms don’t convey harms of bacteria, surveys find
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 01, 2023
The terms “antimicrobial resistance” and “AMR” aren’t working so well to convey how dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections are, a new study finds. Additionally, a more...