90-Day Specific Readmission for Clostridium difficile Infection After Hospitalization With an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flare: Outcomes and Risk Factors

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have an increased risk for Clostridium difficile infection. We aimed to investigate disease-specific readmiss...

Preadmission Cannabis Use Is Positively Correlated With Inpatient Opioid Dose Exposure in Hospitalized Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Opioid use is associated with excess mortality in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) It is unknown if preadmission use of cannabis increas...

Safety and efficacy of convalescent plasma therapy in severely and critically ill patients with COVID-19: a systematic review with meta-analysis

More attention has been focused on the use of convalescent plasma (CP) for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. The severely ill patients benefited more from...

Total Abdominal Colectomies With Proctectomy Are Associated With Higher 30-Day Readmission Rates in Children With Ulcerative Colitis

Hospital readmissions are a burden on patients and families and place a financial strain on the health care system. Thirty-day readmission rates for a...

Effect of a Practice-wide Anti-TNF Proactive Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Program on Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Reports on the feasibility and effectiveness of translating proactive, antitumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for inflammat...

Characteristics and Long-Term Outcomes of Pregnancy-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Case-Control Study

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) frequently affects women during their reproductive years. The impact of pregnancy in patients with established IBD ha...