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Yusuke Terasaka, Vice President and Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Kyoto Katsura Hospital This time, I visited major cities in India for 9 days and 7 nights to inspect local hospitals and medical sites. India has the world's largest population and the fastest growing economy, but there is a great disparity in the field of medical care between public and private hospitals, and between urban and rural areas. We actually visited PICC, a...

While PICCs are widely used, the risk of inappropriate use and complications has been an issue. We present an article that evaluates the cost-effectiveness of a physician-led, pay-for-performance QI intervention by the Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium (HMS) in Michigan that increased the appropriate use of PICCs....

In Japan, midline catheters are gradually coming into use. The issue of how to differentiate the use of midline catheters from that of PICC catheters will become an issue for consideration in the future. In this article, we will discuss whether midline catheters or PICCs are better for outpatients receiving antimicrobial therapy. The research was conducted on...