Background: Culture and susceptibility results are essential to optimize antibiotic treatment. Prescribers rely on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) interpretation to prescribe antibiotics. Many hospitals include MIC values with the interpretation in culture and susceptibility reports, where comparing MICs can be misleading (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Current guidelines recommend shifting physician-led care (PLC) for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) to more effective multidisciplinary health care (MHC). However, few researchers have studied its real-life implementation in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, we aimed to assess the implementation and compare the outcomes of an MDC diabetes management program (DMP) among T2DM patients to a PLC at a general hospital after one year of follow-up in a real-world practice setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol
November 2023