SO REAL with poor elderly people who just would like to stay away from antibiotics

#UTI

#ESCMID global #ESCMID global 2024 #ESCMID #EUCIC
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Barbara Trautner

Tony Breu 👀 Brad Langford Adi 😊

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#Cdiff icile can be devastating side effect of treating infections, but did you know that the specific antibiotic used can impact #Cdiff risk? Check out this infographic to C the diff-erence you can have when selecting antibiotics! #IDxPosts #IDTwitter #Antibiotics #TwitteRx

Out today! Stewardship prompts to improve antibiotic selection for pneumonia & UTI - 2 INSPIRE RCTs - Reduced empiric extended-spectrum antibiotic use by 28.4% and 17.4% in hospitalized patients with pneumonia & UTI, respectively. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Artificial intelligence applications to infectious diseases are rapidly advancing. ID specialists can be prepared by learning about the benefits & limitations. Here are some practical use cases of generative #AI to support daily tasks in #antimicrobialstewardship . #SHEASpring2024

How can you start using generative AI to support #antimicrobialstewardship ? Here are some practical use cases. Example prompts here: sites.google.com/view/asphds/ar…
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What are the diagnostic stewardship strategies for urinary tract infections? Here's a great visual.
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Sharon Onguti Barbara Trautner
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Another exciting journal club coming up in the next few weeks! Our guest speaker Bradley Langford from Public Health Ontario will be leading a discussion on strategies to address common prescribing challenges for antimicrobial stewardship.

🆕UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 148

Don't use #clindamycin for prophylaxis or initial tx of dental infections ti.ubc.ca/letter148

🛟 #Cefuroxime safe for most pts w/ pencillin allergy
⚠️Clindamycin ↗️ death compared w/ amoxicillin
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#ptsafety #dental

Interested in antimicrobial stewardship in primary care?

All are welcome to tune in April 16 12-1 EST. I’ll be talking about our recent work on antibiotic audit and feedback

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Public Health ON Brad Langford ChoosingWiselyCanada

(1/3) The Antimicrobial Stewardship Advisory Committee (ASAC) is currently seeking new committee members: practitioners currently working in primary care or long-term care.

🤖 Although #AI isn’t used widely in #InfectiousDiseases right now, it may eventually support many aspects of clinical care. What can you expect? We asked around.

Gonzalo Bearman Keith S. Kaye Brad Langford

#IDtwitter #Antimicrobials #HospitalMedicine

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Our paper studying FUBCs in GN-BSIs, just published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection! Link to article here:👉 clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-…

A short summary🧵: 1/

Steven Tong Brad Langford Kevin Brown Kevin Schwartz ICES IHPME #IDtwitter

Join Brad Langford and Alexandre R. Marra in discussing 'All Aboard the ChatGPT steamroller' with author Lemuel Non, MD in the latest podcast episode!
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Had a great time discussing AI in medicine! Check out this podcast episode from ASHE Journal :

#IDtwitter #MedTwitter #MedX

Brad Langford Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 Bug Pharmacist 💊🧫 Tim Gauthier Debbie Goff Priya Nori MD, FSHEA, FIDSA SIDP Ilan Schwartz MD PhD Mine is definitely related to patient care and medical education:
✔️ generating easy-to-understand handouts for patients
✔️ generating case-based questions for teaching to trainees and students

🚨 New Article!

👀 Here, Steve Smoke takes us through ways AI can be used to by clinical pharmacists. Have you started leveraging 🤖 AI yet???

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#MedEd #FOAMed #PharmEd #Pharmacist

I'll be giving some upcoming talks on #AI in antimicrobial stewardship and I've been compiling a list of practical use cases.

What are your favorite uses for AI in infectious diseases?

Look out for the list of use cases to be released at #SHEASpring2024

What makes for an effective AI-informed CDSS?
▶️Efficiently blends into the workflow
🧠Intuitive and simple to use
🩺Answers clinically-relevant questions
🫲 Designed to inform and assist but not to replace a clinician
🪟 Transparent
ℹ️ Evidence-based
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'Older age, altered mental status, dementia, and change in urine character were not associated with bacteremia. These data reinforce...the poor yield of urine and blood cultures among hospitalized patients without systemic signs of infection' 👏 Sonali Advani MD, MPH, FIDSA