Acute pancreatitis (AP) has increased in the past decade and accounts for over 275,000 annual hospital admissions in the U.S. and estimated medical costs of $2.5 billion. Noteworthy points are as follows: Morbid obesity and DM 2 are independent risk…
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In many hospitals, blood cultures have become a reflexive habit for patients presenting to the ER with any suspected infection.  This was, in part, due to the inappropriate addition of routine blood cultures as a core measure in 2001 by…
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There are multiple noninfectious medical disorders that mimic cellulits.  In this retrospective study, researchers focused on misdiagnosis of cellulitis in 259 patients hospitalized with presumed diagnoses of lower extremity cellulitis at a Boston teaching hospital. Patients with complicating factors (e.g.,…
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This population-based cohort study between 2000 and 2012 from the UK’s Health Improvement Network database compared diagnoses between 275,000 adults who had been prescribed corticosteroids and 626,000 who had not been prescribed corticosteroids.  The query was whether corticosteroid recipients had…
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