High value care is not a distinct way of practicing medicine, but rather integrates with other aspects of contemporary practice. And thinking about medications from the perspective of high value care highlights these areas of overlap.
The optimal duration of antibiotic treatment for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is not known. Shortening the course of therapy may help decrease antibiotic resistance and adverse effects of giving prolonged antibiotics. This study looks to establish that mortality and recurrent infections…
Anemia is a common complication of chronic kidney disease which is typically treated with recombinant human erythropoietin. However the ideal goal hemoglobin is not well established. This study looks to answer if a lower-goal hemoglobin CKD patients shows decreased adverse…