Background: Medicine residents have limited exposure to some of the common topics in quality improvement and clinical performance. One identified need in their education was promoting knowledge of how inpatient clinical performance is measured. Purpose: We designed teaching sessions for medicine residents to improve understanding of how clinical performance is measured and acted on in […]

Background: Ceftriaxone or cefotaxime has been the drug of choice to treat spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) for many years, but little is known about microbiology, resistance rate to cephalosporines, and clinical outcomes over the last few decades. Our study aimed to describe the clinical and microbiological characteristics of culture-positive SBP at University of Kentucky Hospital. […]