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Am Fam Physician
January 2025
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.
Acute rhinosinusitis causes more than 30 million patients to seek health care per year in the United States. Respiratory tract infections, including bronchitis and sinusitis, account for 75% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in primary care. Sinusitis is a clinical diagnosis; the challenge lies in distinguishing between the symptoms of bacterial and viral sinusitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
July 2024
Cardinal Health Innovative Delivery Solutions, Stafford, TX, USA.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine if oral beta-lactam therapy is non-inferior to alternative therapy at discharge following inpatient treatment with an IV cephalosporin for acute pyelonephritis.
Design: Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved, multicenter, retrospective, non-inferiority cohort (15% non-inferiority margin).
Setting: Six hospitals within two healthcare systems.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
August 2024
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Objective: To summarize available literature and highlight research gaps pertaining to the role of a pharmacist in providing antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions for antibiotics at transitions of care (TOC) from inpatient hospital settings to home.
Design: Scoping review.
Methods: This scoping review follows the Arksey and O'Malley methodological framework.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
August 2024
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Objective: Inpatient antibiotic use increased during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to determine whether these changes persisted in persons with and without COVID-19 infection.
Design: Retrospective cohort analysis.
Transl Pediatr
December 2024
Central Laboratory, Jiangxi Provincial Children's Hospital, The Affiliated Children's Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, Nanchang, China.
Background: Oral microbiome homeostasis is important for children's health, and microbial community is affected by anesthetics. The application of anesthetics in children's oral therapy has become a relatively mature method. This study aims to investigate the effect of different anesthesia techniques on children's oral microbiota.
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