Chris Crnich
@cjcrnich.bsky.social
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ID doc, antibiotic steward, and healthcare epidemiologist with a long-term care bent.
#idbluesky
anyone with a suggestion on how to treat a severe thoracic space infection with this pathogen? Currently have pt on levo, ceftol/tazo & tobra
over 1 year ago
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Prof Jenny Rohn
over 1 year ago
This is really interesting!
#AMR
#UTISky
add a skeleton here at some point
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Darcy Wooten (she/her)
over 1 year ago
Fantastic piece by
#WashU
#ID
faculty Jason Burnham on outpatient stewardship and financial incentives.
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Behavioral Boosts, Getting More Bang for Your Buck: Financial incentives for outpatient antibiotic stewardship
Jason Burnham, MD, MSCI, Robin L P Jump, MD, PhD; Behavioral Boosts, Getting More Bang for Your Buck: Financial incentives for outpatient antibiotic stewar
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciae578/7907577?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=cid&utm_medium=email&nbd=13289471759&nbd_source=campaigner
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Angela Huttner
over 1 year ago
Meant to share this study by
@merellambregts.bsky.social
's team
@cjcrnich.bsky.social
๐ when you & I were on
#Breakpoints
we were asked whether there was a pyuria cutoff to help differentiate btw infection & colonization Here may be one (in elderly โ๏ธ at least)
#IDSky
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Current Pyuria Cutoffs Promote Inappropriate Urinary Tract Infection Diagnosis in Older Women
The degree of pyuria can help distinguish urinary tract infection (UTI) in older women from asymptomatic women with and without bacteriuria. We demonstrate
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/76/12/2070/7048393
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Ken Koon Wong
over 1 year ago
retrospective study unit-spec combo-abxgram guided vs patient-spec risk factor. both provided hi appropriateness in emp abx selection. Patient-specrisk factorโbased approach demonstrated a higher rate of appropriate therapy and offered advantages in reducing unnecessary combination therapy
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A Comparison of Different Strategies for Optimizing the Selection of Empiric Antibiotic Therapy for Pneumonia Caused by Gram-Negative Bacteria in Intensive Care Units: Unit-Specific Combination Antibi...
Both unit-specific combination antibiograms and patient-specific factors help improve the appropriateness of empiric antibiotic selection for intensive car
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofae643/7849755
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd
over 1 year ago
Day 18
#30DayMapChallenge
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.
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Antibiotic Steward ๐ ฑ๏ธC๐๐ ฟ๏ธ๐
over 1 year ago
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#ofid
Implementing oral antibiotics for bone and joint infections: Lessons learned and opportunities for improvement
#idsky
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Implementing oral antibiotics for bone and joint infections: Lessons learned and opportunities for improvement
AbstractBackground. Although intravenous antibiotics have historically been the standard of care for bone and joint infections, clinical trial data has hig
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofae683/7902026
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