Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

For many common bacterial infections, shorter antibiotic durations are often as effective and safer than longer duration regimens. However, a national survey published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases found that most U.S. adults perceive longer antib...

In an opinion article published in Academic Emergency Medicine, an emergency medicine professor at the University of Virginia notes that emergency departments (EDs) have become the default destination for nearly all acute, unscheduled care, even when...

Antibiotic stewardship initiatives in urgent care may improve prescribing practices beyond just their original objectives, according to a study published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. A national quality improv...

Utah is expanding its testing of AI as a tool for prescribing medications with the possibility that some test programs could eventually allow prescriptions to be ordered by AI autonomously without direct clinician involvement. Last week, the state’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy approved several new pilots, including a program that could allow prescriptions for de...

In a new trend report that examines healthcare spending in the United States based on a large claims database, Trilliant Health notes that from 2018 to 2025, there was a measurable shift toward higher-acuity procedure codes across all o...