Tag: Pneumonia
Survey: Many U.S. Adults Not Planning to Get Flu Vaccine
Vaccine knowledge and anticipated rates of vaccination even lower for pneumococcal disease
Poor Pneumonia Outcomes Tied to Overuse of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
Poor outcomes include higher mortality, longer hospital stay, and greater risk for C. difficile infection
Hospitalized Pneumonia Patients Often Get Excess Antibiotics
Vast majority of excess treatment occurs with antibiotics prescribed at discharge
Medicare Advantage Patients Have Higher Readmission Rates
Higher adjusted readmission rates seen for AMI, CHF, pneumonia with Medicare Advantage
ACIP: Men as Old as 26 Should Get HPV Vaccine
Panel also no longer advises that healthy Americans ≥65 routinely receive Prevnar 13 vaccination
Diagnostic Testing, Antibiotics Overused in Pediatric CAP
Chest radiography ordered in 43 percent, antibiotics prescribed in 73.9 percent of community-acquired pneumonia visits
Zerbaxa Approved for Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia
Drug previously approved for treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections, UTIs
AEDs Tied to Higher Pneumonia Risk in Alzheimer Patients
Risk for pneumonia highest within first month of antiepileptic drug use but persists through two years
Pneumococcal Vaccination at Age 50 Prevents the Most Disease
But cost of giving pneumococcal vaccines to all 50-year-olds exceeds $250,000 per QALY
Omadacycline Noninferior to Moxifloxacin for Pneumonia
Second study shows noninferiority to linezolid for acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections
