Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine
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Practice Guideline
Clinical guideline highlight for the hospitalist: Diagnosis and management of acute bacterial arthritis in children.
Clinical Practice Guideline by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): 2023 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Acute Bacterial Arthritis RELEASE DATE: January 1, 2024 PRIOR VERSION(S): n/a DEVELOPER: Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) FUNDING SOURCE: PIDS and IDSA TARGET POPULATION: Children with suspected or confirmed acute bacterial arthritis.
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Malnutrition in hospitalized patients is associated increased length of stay, cost, readmission, and death. No recent studies have examined trends in prevalence or outcomes of hospitalized patients with a diagnosis of malnutrition. ⋯ Use of malnutrition diagnosis codes increased significantly from 2016 to 2019. During this time, mortality among hospitalizations with a diagnosis code for severe malnutrition decreased. Though the increased prevalence of malnutrition codes may represent a change in the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients, the decline in mortality suggests some of the increase may be due to lower threshold for coding and assignment of the diagnosis to less ill patients.