9️⃣3️⃣% of antibiotic duration excess occurs post-discharge!
Are we properly assessing discharge prescriptions in #AMS teams?

Fantastic talk by Valerie Vaughn at #ESCMIDGlobal2024 showing us the way through the ROAD home framework.

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⁦Valerie Vaughn⁩ explaining the mystery of why everyone prescribes 5, 7, or 10 days of antibiotics at discharge—fixed dose buttons to click! ⁦ESCMID⁩ #escmid24

This is BIG! ESCMID emergency department abx #stewardship guidelines will be recommending procalcitonin to guide initiation (vs withholding) of antibiotics in patients with LRTI! 🔥🔥🔥 #ESCMIDGlobal2024

Excited to give my first talk at #ESCMIDGlobal2024 ECCMID all about discharge prescribing and how we’re working at Michigan HMS with #uqual and Julie Szymczak to do DC #stewardship tailored to hospital context. Check out protocol below to learn more!

Great new work by Dani Babbel and Stacy Johnson of UQuAL Scholars and UofU General Internal Medicine demonstrating that treating opioid withdrawal symptoms in hospitalized patients can improve their experiences and engage them in substance use treatment.
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TFW you see the Mentoring Guide (with Sanjay Saint Valerie Vaughn) translated into Italian by Università di Firenze!

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Grazi Alessandro Bartoloni,Alessandra Petrucci, Betti Giusti, Francesco Annunziato, Donatella Lippi, Daniela Matarrese for the translation!

🔑 Insights from #SHEASpring2024 by Jessica Tobin, MS2, & Emily Sydnor Spivak 🇺🇦: 2 years of unnecessary antibiotics = circling Earth's equator 40x by car (1M miles! 🤯). For #EarthDay2024 , let's prioritize greener healthcare by measuring, understanding, & reducing our climate impact. 🌍

Inappropriate diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is common among hospitalized adults, particularly those who are older and those presenting with altered mental status or dementia. Study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Ashwin Gupta Valerie Vaughn

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‼️Patient perspectives in treatment of inpatient #OUD :
- Stigma free care is very important
- Helpful to have options for #opiate withdrawal treatment inpatient

New paper out by Drs. Dani Babbel, Pat Liu Valerie Vaughn

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Great talk—save this one! #endorse #SHEASpring2024

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

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

I’m convinced. Time to change those abx from IV to PO. Definitely going to help LOS and be more patient centered (nobody likes going home with a PICC) SHEA UofU General Internal Medicine

So proud of our mentee Alistair Thorpe on his SHEA poster award for his work helping patients and their caregivers understand the difference between UTI and Asymptomatic Bacteriuria

More pics from the National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders meeting in the Great Hall. Made “greater” by the ‘23-‘24 group of DxEx scholars.

Learning from the best and brightest about the challenges and solutions to the biggest healthcare problems of today at National Academy of Medicine’s Emerging Leaders Forum.

Starting soon! 2024s Best of Research and Innovation on the main stage! So proud of this years winners! Society of Hospital Medicine #SHMConverge24 Vinny Arora, Ruchi Jain, and Julianna Ghiorzi!

‼️ #DiagnosticMomentum is rampant in common infxns like #CAP and #UTI

✨The role of #Hospitalists is to constantly re-evaluate/refine diagnoses to improve pt care and #AntibioticStewardship !

Poster by Dr Tim Brash mentored by Dr Valerie Vaughn

#SHMConverge24 Society of Hospital Medicine

How do we improve #AntibioticStewardship when it comes to #ASB and improve care in #rural areas/ #CriticalAccessHospitals ?

Poster by Drs. Claire Ciarkowski Valerie Vaughn et al demonstrating importance of

✨collaboration of stewards
✨productive feedback

Poster 3 is up! Come see our #HMS poster presentation right now at #SHMConverge24 !

23 - Diagnostic Momentum in Hospitalized Patients with #Pneumonia & #UTI - Tim Brash, MD Valerie Vaughn Ashwin Gupta