Causes and Predictors of Early Hospital Readmission in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Objective: We investigated characteristics of adult patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, in an attempt to identify the causes of early readmission.

Methods: We performed a retrospective case-control study examining all inpatient electronic health records of patients with SLE at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center over a 2.5-year period (2012-2014).

Preventing the inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria at a community teaching hospital.

The goal of this study was to assess the overtreatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in hospitalized patients, calculate the total costs of inappropriate treatment, and determine if a multi-faceted educational intervention was effective in reducing the overtreatment of ASB in a resource-limited community hospital. The study encompassed three phases: a retrospective pre-intervention assessment of the baseline cost and treatment of ASB, the implementation of a multi-faceted educational intervention, and a prospective post-intervention assessment of the efficacy of the intervention. A positive urine culture was defined by bacterial counts ≥10(5) cfu/mL.