March 2019
Fighting resistance in the ICU
Ongoing growth in antibiotic resistance has highlighted both the importance and the challenge of frontline stewardship.
Hospitals changing practices to curb opioid epidemic
Interventions include shorter prescriptions and closer monitoring.
Moving beyond medical needs
Some hospitals are treating patients' food and housing shortages.
A real-time reminder to stop telemetry
Physicians are automatically alerted when telemetry exceeds a recommended duration and asked to take action.
Ask Dr. Pinson
Readers inquire about sepsis criteria, uncontrolled diabetes, and aspiration pneumonia.
Productivity bonuses not so productive for high-value care
California hospitalists were surveyed about their institutions' culture of high-value care.
Alternatives to drugs
This issue looks at antibiotic resistance, opioid prescribing, and patients' social needs.
Recalls continue for hypertension meds
Details on the latest alerts, recalls, and approvals.
Treatment of trainees, admission patterns, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
Cases from Oregon Health & Science University
Red-cell aplasia, septic thromboembolus, and more.
Individual case: Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms
A patient with fever and rash during treatment for orbital cellulitis and cavernous sinus thrombosis.
Bonus online case: Cytomegalovirus immune recovery uveitis in AIDS
A patient with AIDS and subacute monocular vision deterioration.