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COVID-19 Mortality Low Among In-Hospital Pregnant Patients

email article Pregnant patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had a lower risk of mortality than those who were not pregnant, a retrospective cohort study found. The mortality rate was less than 1% for pregnant women who were hospitalized with COVID-19 and viral pneumonia, as compared to 3.5% in the nonpregnant population, reported Beth Pineles, MD, PhD, of the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, and colleagues. The median time from hospital admission to death was 18 days in the pregnant cohort versus 12 days among patients who were not pregnant, they wrote in a brief report in the The study also found that in subgroups of patients who were admitted to intensive care or required mechanical ventilation, pregnant COVID-19 patients had lower in-hospital mortality compared to those who were not pregnant.

In-hospital mortality low in pregnant patients with COVID-19

URL goes live when the embargo lifts New research based on an analysis of data from a large U.S. health care database suggests that in-hospital mortality is low in pregnant women with COVID-19. The retrospective cohort study is published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Previous reports suggested an increased risk for death in pregnant women with COVID-19 compared to nonpregnant women of reproductive age. However, these studies may have been limited by factors such as registries with a significant proportion of missing data and biased case ascertainment. Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston studied data from the Premier Healthcare Database, an all-payer data repository that captures 20% of U.S. hospitalizations, to evaluate the risk for in-hospital death among pregnant and nonpregnant patients of reproductive age hospitalized with COVID-19. The cohort consisted of 1,062 pregnant and 9,815 nonp

National safety program linked to reduced hospital antibiotic use

Ridofranz / iStock Implementation of a national safety program that helps US hospitals to establish antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) and clinicians to improve their antibiotic decision-making was associated with reduced antibiotic use and fewer hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infections, according to a study today in JAMA Network Open. The study, conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the University of Chicago, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), evaluated the impact of AHRQ s Safety Program for Antibiotic Use, which was established in 2017 to support hospitals in their efforts to establish ASPs and successfully implement stewardship principles. ASPs have been associated with reduced antibiotic use in individual hospitals across the country.

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