STAT
APRIL 19, 2024
regulators approved several new antibiotics for combating hard-to-treat bacteria during a recent five-year period, hospital doctors instead gave older, generic remedies to more than 40% of patients battling those stubborn pathogens, according to a new analysis. Although U.S. And cost may also be an issue.
STAT
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The number of credentialed midwives — including both certified nurse-midwives, who can attend births in hospital settings, and a minority of certified midwives, who don’t hold a nursing degree — in the U.S. more than doubled from 1991 and 2012 and has continued to grow steadily in the years since. Read the rest…
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STAT
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
When Tamiya Griffin was expecting her first child in 2014, she had what she thought was a straightforward plan: deliver at the hospital down the road, the same place her mother gave birth to her. But when Griffin, then a 22-year-old senior in college, went into labor a few weeks early, she had to undergo an emergency C-section.
STAT
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Critical information, like unique device identifiers that help hospitals keep track of implants in patients, was often missing. Dispirited, she left in 2014 to work for consulting firm Avalere to build a device recall database. Patients and doctors alike often knew very little about the safety record of their devices.
STAT
JANUARY 9, 2023
The researchers used clinician-level and practice acquisition data to study changes in the makeup of clinician workforces at private equity-acquired versus non-private equity-acquired dermatology, ophthalmology, and gastroenterology practices between 2014 and 2019.
ID Stewardship
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Approximately 5-15% of patients requiring mechanical ventilation will develop VAP during their hospitalization. Based on large surveillance data, most regions in the United States have MRSA rates above 30%, therefore, most hospital guidelines in this country likely include an anti-MRSA agent as part of empiric therapy for VAP. .
PharmD Live
MAY 30, 2024
Every day, 750 seniors (age 65 and older) in the United States are hospitalized due to serious side effects from one or more medications.(Shehab People over 65 make up only 14% of the population but account for 56% of hospitalizations for adverse drug events (ADEs) (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, 2021). Shehab et al.
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