Dementia is littered with interventions like thickened liquids & PEG tubes that became standard of practice on theoretical benefits without clinical evidence. My editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine gives 3 recs to consider if thinking about thickened liquids
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Register for ASIDANZ CRN Meeting 27-28 July. #goldcoast . Stellar line up of speakers including Preeti Malani Steven Tong David Paterson.
See: bit.ly/48YRQOS
*If you register to attend BOTH the BJI and CRN 2024 you’ll receive a 20% discount off your CRN registration.**

Ready for summer #PureMichigan

❓When it comes to health, what are older adults most concerned about?

💲Our new national & Michigan polls show that health-related costs rise to the top, with five kinds of health costs making the top 10 list

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Michigan: healthyagingpoll.org/reports-more/r…

If you care about health issues affecting people over 50, sign up to get notified when our National Poll on #HealthyAging , and our new Michigan Poll on Healthy Aging, issue new reports!
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#OlderAmericansMonth #OlderMichiganiansDay

Have you ever considered submitting a JAMA Clinical Challenge? JAMA is accepting submissions for infectious disease patient scenarios. #ECCMID2024

For criteria and information on Clinical Challenge submissions, visit: ja.ma/3UhxIDp

Happy to see this 2023 JAMA article getting a lot of discussion at #ESCMIDGlobal2024 . Important, practice changing trial for management of CMV in SOT. Letermovir vs Valganciclovir for Prophylaxis of CMV in High-Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Amazing conversation between ⁦Josh Nosanchuk⁩ & ⁦Jeanne Marrazzo⁩ at #ESCMIDGlobal2024 highlighting the need to address stigma and improve trust to improve health for all. ⁦NIAID News⁩

Set a new program record with the #NFLDraft in our backyard!

#ProBlue

Dr. Sirima’s #ESCMIDGlobal keynote begins with a reminder of the global burden of #malaria . 249 million cases a year with substantial deaths, especially in children.

‘Good Enough’ — We need to keep talking about this👇

Humanities | JAMA | JAMA Network

“With more women entering the field, there is a responsibility to be more authentic and vulnerable as we help to shape the next generation.”

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Assignment: Write a JAMA editorial with your sibling, leveraging the expertise both of you have gained in #infectiousdisease clinical & research careers.

Preeti Malani: ☑️
Anu Malani: ☑️

Editorial: Anurag Malani and Preeti Malani on harnessing the EHR to improve empirical antibiotic prescribing. ja.ma/446MvEf

In patients hospitalized for UTI, real-time EHR–generated recommendations for standard-spectrum antibiotics using patient-specific risk for MDRO-associated infections can safely reduce empirical extended-spectrum antibiotic use.

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Real-time EHR–generated recommendations promoting standard-spectrum antibiotics for patients at low risk of infection with MDROs reduced empirical extended-spectrum antibiotic use in hospitalized patients with pneumonia by 28.0%.

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“When we choose not to use someone’s name, we are choosing to reduce them. We are indirectly saying, “You are no more than the one-word descriptor I have given you.” Poignant reflection on why words matter by David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA's Katie Thure, the latest #APOMM . jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…