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Non-children's Hospitals Fall Short on CAP Prescribing Most children admitted to non-children's hospitals with community-acquired pneumonia failed to receive antibiotics in accordance with guidelines, a study found.
Medscape Medical News, December 12, 2018
Low Nurse Staffing Increases Risk for Inpatient Death Each day spent on a medical or surgical ward where registered nurses were understaffed increased hospitalized patients' risk for death by 3%, a study found.
Medscape Medical News, December 5, 2018

Triple Therapy for COPD Cuts Exacerbations, May Up Pneumonia Risk
Reuters Health Information, November 27, 2018
Eleventh Child Dies From Viral Outbreak at New Jersey Facility
Reuters Health Information, November 20, 2018
Influenza Activity Still Low in United States
Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2018
PCOS 2018 Immunotherapy Adverse Events More Common Than Initially Reported
Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2018

Pneumonia Perspective

Negative Predictive Value of a CXR in Pediatric Pneumonia Can a negative chest x-ray rule out the need for treatment in a child being evaluated for pneumonia?
Medscape Pediatrics, November 20, 2018
Poor Communication May Mean Missing Cancer As a medical student, discovering holes in the system can be frustrating. What happens when a lapse in communication means a missed diagnosis?
Medscape Med Students, October 31, 2018

Who Should Be Getting the HPV Vaccine Now?
Medscape Internal Medicine, October 30, 2018
Asthma-COPD Overlap: Managing This Critical Disease
CHEST and Medscape, October 8, 2018
De-escalating Antibiotics: A Nudge in the Right Direction
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), October 2, 2018
Time Out! A Close Look at Antibiotic Use in LTC
Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 2, 2018

Journals

ICU Management of Trauma Patients
Critical Care Medicine, December 10, 2018
Enterovirus D68 Surveillance, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2016
Emerging Infectious Diseases, December 5, 2018
Predicting Adverse Outcomes After Total Hip Arthroplasty
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, December 5, 2018
Outcomes of Flap Preservation Surgery in Fournier's Gangrene
Wounds, December 4, 2018
HCoV-NL63 Respiratory Infections in a LTC Facility
Emerging Infectious Diseases, December 3, 2018

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