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This quality improvement study investigates whether implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Strategies to Prevent Clostridioides difficile Infection in Acute Care Facilities Framework is associated with a decrease in hospital-onset C difficile infections.
This diagnostic study validates differences in skin surface temperatures between patients with cellulitis and patients with pseudocellulitis, assesses the optimal temperature measure and cut point for differentiating cellulitis from pseudocellulitis, and compares the performance of skin surface temperature and the ALT-70 score.
This review discusses diagnosis and first-line treatment options for dry mouth, oral candidiasis, and recurrent aphthous ulcers.
This cohort study characterizes inappropriate diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia among hospitalized patients in 48 Michigan hospitals.
This cluster randomized trial assesses the effectiveness of multifaceted strategies to improve vaccine uptake among primary school students in Beijing, China.
This cross-sectional study examines antibiotic use in association with the incidence and mortality from early-onset sepsis among late-preterm and full-term newborns in Sweden.
This case series describes the clinical course, outcomes, and microbiological diagnostic profiles of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis and the use of rose bengal–photodynamic antimicrobial therapy as an alternative or adjunctive therapy to treat isolates.
This randomized clinical trial compares the effectiveness of mechanical and oral antibiotics bowel preparation with that of mechanical bowel preparation alone for reducing morbidity in patients undergoing elective rectal resection.
This JAMA Insights in the Climate Change and Health series discusses the importance of clinicians having awareness of changes in the geographic range, seasonality, and intensity of transmission of infectious diseases to help them diagnose, treat, and prevent these diseases.
This self-controlled case series evaluates stroke risk after administration of either brand of the COVID-19 bivalent vaccine, either brand of the COVID-19 bivalent plus a high-dose or adjuvanted influenza vaccine on the same day, and a high-dose or adjuvanted influenza vaccine in Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or older.
This cross-sectional study examines findings from brain magnetic resonance imaging to identify the characteristics than can distinguish LGI1-antibody and CASPR2-antibody autoimmune encephalitis from viral encephalitis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
This cohort study assesses whether severe sepsis during treatment for childhood acute leukemia is associated with increased incidence of long-term organ dysfunction among adult survivors using observational data from the St Jude Lifetime Cohort Study.
This randomized clinical trial evaluates and compares the effect of patient portal vs text message reminders on influenza vaccination rates across a health system in the United States.
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