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2024 25 Apr
Over 1.5 million adults are hospitalised in the U.S. each year due to pneumonia, with about half of them receiving unnecessary extended-spectrum antibiotics. This overuse contributes to the risk of antibiotic resistance and other adverse effects. Current strategies to improve antibiotic prescribing mainly focus on shortening the duration or de-escalating...Read more
2014 28 Nov
Patient safety is one of the foremost challenges in US healthcare, affecting hundreds of thousands of patients and costing tens of billions of dollars every year. According to the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System", 44,000 to 98,000 people die each year in US hospitals from preventable medical...Read more