Should Acute Appendicitis Be Managed Without Appendectomy?
Medically Uninsured; Appendectomy; Office Visits; Treatment Outcomes; Abdominal Abscess; Cecal Neoplasms; Clostridium Infections; Intestinal Obstruction; Readmission; Appendicitis – Therapy
Watkins Richard R
Internal Medicine Alert
2019
2019-01-30
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Antibiotics and Adverse Events: Doctors, Do No Harm!
Length of Stay; Patient Safety; Internal Medicine; Clostridium Infections; Adverse Drug Event; Drug Toxicity; Pruritus; Medical Practice; Evidence-Based; Antibiotics – Therapeutic Use; Antibiotics – Administration and Dosage; Antibiotics – Adverse Effects; Clostridium Infections – Etiology; Hospitalization – Statistics and Numerical Data; Adverse Drug Event – Classification; Adverse Drug Event – Etiology; Adverse Drug Event – Risk Factors; Anaphylaxis – Risk Factors
A retrospective study found that among 1,488 hospitalized patients who received an antibiotic, 298 (20%) experienced at least one antibiotic-associated adverse drug event. Furthermore, 287 (19%) of the antibiotic regimens were not clinically indicated, and 56 (20%) of these were associated with an adverse drug event.
Watkins Richard R
Hospital Medicine Alert
2017
2017-12
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Clostridium difficile Transmission: It's Complicated.
Clostridium Infections; Clostridium Difficile; Disease Transmission; Genomics; Symptoms
Watkins Richard R
Internal Medicine Alert
2013
2013-12-29
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