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Clinical Conundrums: Should You Give the First Dose of Antibiotics IV Before Discharging Home on Oral Antibiotics?

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A prospective randomized study of inpatient iv. Lancet 2004; 364: 1141-8. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 1997; 24(3):457-67. PMID: 9114201 Siegel RE et al. antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia. The optimal duration of therapy. 1996; 110(4):965-71.

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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He's also won the award five times under the Best Educational Mobile App category (2023, 2020, 2019, 2017, and 2016), once for Most Influential Radiology Researcher (2004), and once under the category of Best Radiology Image (2017). Elliot Fishman, MD. Dempsey began working in radiography at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania.

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, October 2022

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Patients 18 to 65 years old who experienced a stroke were matched on age and admission date to a control, defined as patients with head trauma or ankle sprain at an inpatient or emergency department visit. The authors derived the Boston criteria version 2.0 They also assessed performance of the v2.0

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, May 2023

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The National Cancer Database was queried for pediatric patients who were diagnosed with CNS tumors from 2004 to 2018. Primary outcomes included 30/90 days postoperative mortality (30M/90M), readmission within 30 days of discharge (30R), and length of inpatient stay (LOS). Inpatient outcomes including length of stay (P =.32),