Impact of prescription drug-monitoring program on controlled substance prescribing in the ED.

Objective: In 2009, Florida initiated a statewide prescription drug-monitoring program (PDMP) to encourage safer prescribing of controlled substances and reduce drug abuse and diversion. Data supporting the utility of such programs in the emergency department (ED) is scarce. This study sought to determine the effect of PDMP data on controlled substance prescribing from the ED.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia due to Shewanella putrefaciens.

Purpose: The first reported U.S. case of ventilator-associated pneumonia evidently caused by Shewanella putrefaciens is described.