![1]() - News- Persistent opioid use a risk after surgery in teens and young adults- January 24, 2018- Higher initial opioid requirements didn’t necessarily mean persistent opioid use later. 
- News- Journal of Hospital Medicine – Jan. 2018- January 24, 2018- Read the latest from the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the premier publication for dissemination of research for the specialty of hospital medicine. 
![1]() - News- Predicting MDR Gram-negative infection mortality risk- January 24, 2018- Several factors were predictive of mortality risk in hospitalized patients with multidrug resistant Gram-negative infections. 
![1]() - News- Rural residents admitted for opioid overdoses increasingly are hospitalized in urban hospitals- January 24, 2018- Is there an association between rurality and trends and characteristics of hospitalizations for opioid overdose? 
- News- SHM launches 2018 State of Hospital Medicine Survey- January 23, 2018- Biennial survey provides extensive insight into hospital medicine groups’ configuration and operations. 
![1]() - News- Beware the COPD exacerbation- January 23, 2018- If a COPD patient has all the classic symptoms of an exacerbation, are there still other diagnoses to consider? 
![1]() - News- PPIs, certain antibiotics increase risk of hospital onset C. difficile infection- January 23, 2018- Deprescribing acid suppression therapy coupled with antibiotic stewardship could greatly reduce the incidence of hospital-onset C. difficile infection. 
![1]() - News- U.S. hospitalists estimate significant resources spent on defensive medicine- January 23, 2018- Clinical question: What percent of inpatient health care spending by hospitalists can be attributed to defensive medicine? 
![1]() - News- Cost transparency fails to affect high-cost medication utilization rates- January 22, 2018- Clinical question: Does cost messaging at the time of ordering reduce prescriber use of high-cost medications? 
![1]() - News- NSAIDs reduce spinal pain but are not “clinically important”- January 19, 2018- Are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs effective at reducing neck and low back pain? 






