IDWeek 2022 Meeting Report — Highlights for Hospitalists

IDWeek is a joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and several other organizations that focus on infectious diseases. Dr. Frances Ue, a general internist and hospitalist at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, attended this year's meeting, which took place from October 20 to 23 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Ue has summarized several of the presentations that are of particular relevance and interest to general medicine hospitalists.

Reducing Unnecessary Antibiotic Treatment for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: A Statewide Collaborative Quality Initiative

(Dr. Valerie Vaughn et al.; SHEA Featured Oral Abstract 1592)

Every hospitalist presumably knows not to treat patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB). Never…