Annals of emergency medicine
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To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of implementation facilitation compared with a standard educational strategy to promote emergency department (ED)-initiated buprenorphine with linkage to ongoing opioid use disorder care in the community, from a health care-sector perspective. ⋯ Implementation facilitation, relative to a standard educational strategy, has a moderate-to-high likelihood of being considered cost-effective from a health care-sector perspective, depending on decisionmakers' willingness to pay for units of effectiveness.
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The primary objective of our study was to compare the effectiveness of oral cephalosporins versus fluroquinolones and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) for the treatment of pyelonephritis in patients discharged home from the emergency department (ED). ⋯ Oral cephalosporins were associated with similar treatment failure rates compared with Infectious Diseases Society of America guideline-endorsed treatments for the treatment of pyelonephritis in ED patients discharged home.