A nationwide analysis of French hospital cohorts finds that only about two-thirds of small-cell lung cancer patients eligible ...

A multicenter cohort found that adjunctive topical antibiotic documentation was not associated with a statistically ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, among patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the rate of death from infection (including tuberculosis and cryptococcus) shortly after the ...

Hemorrhage from the upper gastrointestinal tract (esophagus, stomach, or duodenum) is defined as primary when it is the cause of hospital admission and is defined as secondary when it complicates the ...

Cancer patients face a high risk for infection when undergoing cytotoxic chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), particularly during the period of neutropenia. In this high-risk ...

Available at: http://www.greenjournal.org/content/vol108/issue1/#ACOG_PUBLICATIONS Although aseptic surgical techniques have dramatically reduced the incidence of ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) last published guidelines on the prevention of infective endocarditis in 1997. Since then, many studies have questioned the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis ...

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) prophylaxis refers to preventive measures that a doctor may take to stop a recurrence of ARF. These measures involve administering antibiotics to prevent infection. ARF is ...

Current guidelines recommend antimicrobial prophylaxis with fluoroquinolones in patients at high risk for infection-related morbidity and mortality, but this practice provides a short-term benefit to ...