Thank you for joining Journal Club, developed by the department of medicine at Lafayette General Medical Center.

 

Journal Club was set up by the Department of Medicine as a means of sharing information among fellow physicians, nurses and providers whereby pertinent medical articles and journals are discussed. The purpose of The Journal Club is purely educational so that health care providers can stay up to date with current medical literature.

 

Lafayette General Medical Center would like to invite other physicians to share information as well. If you have articles and news you would like to share through this physician platform, please email Mark Attales, Director of Community Relations at Lafayette General Medical Center.

 

Articles for the upcoming September 8th Journal Club include:

1 - Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

2 - Reducing Clostridium difficile infection in acute care by using an improvement collaborative

3 - Cost-Effectiveness of Linezolid vs Vancomycin in Suspected Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nosocomial Pneumonia in Germany

4 - Linezolid versus vancomycin or teicoplanin for nosocomial pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis*

5 - Comparative Antibiotic Failure Rates in the Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Results from a Claims Analysis

6 - Comparison of costs, length of stay, and mortality associated with Candida glabrata and Candida albicans bloodstream infections