Registration is open for our next Antimicrobial stewardship summit, May 31st in Omaha asap.nebraskamed.com/nebraska-antim…

Finally--an editorial that puts everything together (so much fun to write this one with Anu Malani)
Harnessing the Electronic Health Record to Improve Empiric Antibiotic Prescribing #SHEASpring2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

INSPIRE UTI: CPOE prompts promoting standard-spectrum antibiotics for patients at low risk of MDROs significantly reduced empiric extended-spectrum antibiotic use in hospitalized patients with UTI by 17.4% (without increasing ICU transfers or LOS) jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

INSPIRE Pneumonia: CPOE prompts promoting standard-spectrum antibiotics for patients at low risk of MDROs significantly reduced empiric extended-spectrum antibiotic use in hospitalized patients with pneumonia by 28.4% #SHEASpring2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

As baseball season begins, JAMA presents this double-header:
INSPIRE Pneumonia & INSPIRE UTI, a pair of transformative trials using CPOE prompts to create patient-specific MDRO risk estimates to reduce empiric extended-spectrum antibiotics #SHEASpring2024

Esther Golnabi, @bradcutrellMD, James Sanders, @maggiemonogue, @tylamyla2: Review of OPAT prescriptions by the Transitions of Care pharmacists before discharge is feasible and can prevent inappropriate outpatient IV antimicrobials from being prescribed. bit.ly/4aW4b8x

New #Breakpoints episode:

We invite you to the 1st ever meeting of The Tortured Stewards & Surgeons Department. Tune in to today’s episode to hear Drs. Patch Dellinger, DrTrishaPeel, and Michael Calderwood, MD, MPH discuss optimal management of perioperative antibiotics & prevention of SSI.

Really great list of top points for treating (and not mistreating CDI) by Scott Curry SHEA

Having a blast and learning a lot at my first #SHEASpring2024 SHEA. Here's a thread on our work on blood cultures at Stanford Infectious Diseases Fellowship healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention program with Jorge Luis Salinas and awesome collaborations!

ID Connections - animal edition

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🆕️⚡️Prospective, multi-centre, head-to-head comparison between allergists vs non-allergists in low-risk penicillin allergy delabelling: effectiveness, safety and quality of life (HK-DADI2)⚡️ #IDXposts Cc Jason Trubiano 🆔
jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-…

Fungi classification and fungal markers -

IDTwitter - feedback PLZ! And when do you send fungal markers? Can you share specific case examples? When do you cringe when primary team (aka yours truly aka PROF Rez) orders them?!

Thank you to Rabih Geha, FilaMentor, and Saman Nematollahi…

Suppressive antibiotic therapy(SAT) after DAIR is proposed to improve outcomes, yet its efficacy remains under scrutiny!
🆕️⚡️Multicenter retrospective study did not find a statistically significant association between SAT and treatment failure #IDXposts academic.oup.com/ofid/article/d…

SIDP members Drs. Jenna Preusker, Scott Bergman and Danny Schroeder share outcomes data on practice changes resulting from Nebraska's 4th antimicrobial stewardship conference. Poster #52 at #SHEASpring2024 SHEA ACCP INFD PRN

Kicking off our #SHEASpring2024 Antimicrobial Stewardship Track this year is Priya Nori MD, FSHEA, FIDSA with our State of the Union address.

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To get my thumbs warmed up for #SHEASpring2024 , figured I'd share this talk I forgot to share last month.

Was asked to talk about antibiotic prophylaxis in primary care.

Here's what I came up with:

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Representing at AAIM Academic Internal Medicine Week 2024! Our department chair Dr. Debra Romberger and Jasmine R Marcelin, MD, FACP, FIDSA 🦠 presented, our rising chief residents and educational programs administrator attended, and Dr. Deb Wekesa presented with Dr. Marcelin. Go, team! #AIMW24

🔥Thrilled to announce the launch of the ⭐️StAR series!

🌟eps will feature authors of Clinical Infectious Diseases State-of-the-Art reviews, tackling important ID topics! Check out the intro w/CID editors Paul Sax Tara Vijayan, MD #AllanTunkel

Coming up➡️stay tuned for 4 straight wks of StARs!!

SNAP Trial update to end of March 2024

169 new participants in March. Total 2351. 4250 randomisations.
We are now at 107 sites in 8 countries

Will trigger next scheduled analysis at 2500 later in April

Learning some #rstats so converted previous Stata plot from Todd C. Lee

🔥ID Fellows Cup is back for the 2024 season🔥
We're planning our first game May 27 - June 14
More info to come
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