Opinion | To Limit Antibiotic Overprescribing, Take a Page From the Opioid Epidemic Both drugs are dangerous when misused

To limit antibiotic overuse, we may be able to apply lessons from the opioid epidemic:

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This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction.

We all need to speak out to save lives.

Invasive Fungal Diseases in Patients with Multiple Myeloma: Experience at a Large, Urban Referral Center In a large cohort of patients with MM, invasive fungal disease occurred in only 1%. Neutropenia, progressive disease status, and >3 prior lines of chemotherapy were predictors of risk in a case-contr...

Excited to share our case-control study examining risk factors for invasive fungal disease in patients with multiple myeloma! Therapeutics in MM have been rapidly evolving, and we need to keep up with #TxID complications in this population. #IDsky

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Not sure what the solution is aside from continuing to advocate for what we think is best!

This is a great article and such an important topic. I think the “error of omission vs commission” issue is at the heart of a lot of the conflicts in inpatient ID (stopping unnecessary ABX, giving shorter courses, using more narrow spectrum ABX, diagnostic stewardship, etc).

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ID friends: the new CMS add-on billing code for inpatient ID care, G0545, is now active! Please spread the word and use when appropriate for an additional 0.89 wRVUs per inpatient visit.
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