Infectious Disease

General Hospital Medicine   

Questions discussed in this category



Do you still find urinalysis helpful in this situation, or do you rely on more specific culture data, imaging studies, etc.?

Do you involve additional specialists, such as ENT, to further evaluate? Is there a particular algorithm followed by your institution, or is it just d...

Are there situations in which you still feel comfortable giving IV iron? If not, do you consider PO iron?

In other words, are there benefits to identifying URI pathogens that do not necessarily have targeted therapies (e.g., rhinovirus, non-COVID-19 Corona...

When do you have consider sending them as part of your initial workup?


Papers discussed in this category


European journal of pharmacology, 2006 Dec 12

Microbes and infection, 2024 May 06

N Engl J Med,

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2009-11-01

Open forum infectious diseases, 2017

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2014 Jul 15

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2023 Oct 13

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2014 Feb 03

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2013-06

The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Aug 17

Thorax, 2009 Oct

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2018 Aug 01

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021 Oct 05

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2019 Oct 01

European journal of anaesthesiology, 2019 Oct

Journal of clinical anesthesia, 2022 Apr 11

American journal of hematology, 2024 Jan 29

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 2024 Jun 12

American family physician, 2022 Sep

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2024 Jun 25

Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2019 Sep 1

Chest, 2023 Oct 07

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2024 Mar 05

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Aug 22

The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2025 Aug 07

The New England journal of medicine, 1985-04-04

The Laryngoscope, 2017-06

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2020 Nov 29

Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024 Aug 16