This study compares the COVID-19 per capita overall and excess mortality rates in the US vs rates for 20 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries and the timing of any increases in excess mortality between June 2021 and December 2021 (Delta) and December 2021 to March 2022…
This Medical News story examines other potential uses of GLP-1 receptor agonists, the popular type 2 diabetes and weight-loss drugs.
This systematic review and meta-analysis assesses the prevalence of mental health disorders among people experiencing homelessness.
This Viewpoint discusses the unacknowledged risks and harms and unrealized clinical benefits of digital mental wellness and health technologies and offers suggestions for ways to…
Can real-time EHR–generated recommendations safely reduce antibiotic use in hospitalized patients with pneumonia or UTI? Shruti K. Gohil, MD, MPH, of the University of California-Irvine,…
Approximately half of hospitalized adults in the US receive antibiotics, with pneumonia and urinary tract infection (UTI) being the 2 most frequent indications.1 Estimates suggest…
This clinical trial evaluates whether computerized provider order entry prompts providing patient- and pathogen-specific multidrug-resistant organism risk estimates could reduce use of empiric extended-spectrum antibiotics…
About 12% of patients were inappropriately diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to results from more than 17 000 hospitalized patients across 48 hospitals in Michigan.…
This survey study involves asking participants about their opinions on positive and negative character traits of male and female clinicians dressed in 4 different colors…
This Medical News story examines other potential uses of GLP-1 receptor agonists, the popular type 2 diabetes and weight-loss drugs.
This cohort study assesses trends in the use of computed tomography cerebral angiography vs lumbar puncture to detect subarachnoid hemmorrhage among US emergency department patients…
