Unless there is compelling alternative reason to do so (i.e. asthma), giving a glucocorticoid to treat influenza pneumonia was associated with increased risk of mortality.

CURB-65 was a poor predictor of the need for critical care intervention in adult patients with community acquired pneumonia.

Sepsis bundles like the CMS SEP-1 guidelines are too restrictive, requiring an all-or-nothing approach to achieve compliance. These bundles fail to prioritize the most important bundle components while penalizing providers for meaningless omissions that have no impact on mortality.

Patients with a penicillin allergy were 69% more likely to develop MRSA infection and 26% more likely to contract C. difficile.

Most doctors and clinicians think someone else is the problem when it comes to antibiotic resistance and stewardship.  We are the problem.  And we are the solution.

Why is it a bad idea to test for flu during the summer, in a time of low prevalence? Because the PPV decreases as prevalence decreases. Any positive test you get is more likely than not to be a false positive.

Urgent care centers wrote the most inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for viral respiratory illnesses.  They were followed by the ED, medical offices, and finally by retail health clinics.

JAMA recently covered infective endocarditis (IE).  I thought the JF readers would be well served by a Spoon Feed version.  This thing is 12 pages long with 117 references.  Let's miniaturize it, shall we?

This is amazing! UTICalc is an online tool that can both reduce unnecessary testing and missed UTIs.

JournalFeed week in review - was it a POCUS hate train this week? Maybe not…