Search results for "Perioperative care"
Restrictive postop opioid protocols associated with changes in opioid prescribing, chronic use
Opioids prescribed after surgery and rates of conversion to long-term therapy decreased after a protocol limiting postop opioid prescriptions to three days or fewer was implemented at a tertiary care cancer center.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/11/restrictive-postop-opioid-protocols-associated-with-changes-in-opioid-prescribing-chronic-use.htm
11 Jan 2023
A tale of two meetings
A tale of two meetings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/meetings.htm
15 Jan 2008
Coding corner
Coding corner Billing for routine perioperative care by hospitalists may require modifiers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/coding.htm
15 Jun 2008
MKSAP quiz on insulin
These cases and commentary, which focus on insulin, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/ty.htm
15 Apr 2014
Nearly 1 in 7 community-living Medicare patients died within year after major surgery
Mortality rates after major surgery were 28% among patients who were frail and 33% among those with dementia, a prospective longitudinal cohort study of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/26/nearly-1-in-7-community-living-medicare-patients-died-within-year-after-major-surgery.htm
26 Oct 2022
Letter from the Editor
This issue features extensive conference coverage from both Internal Medicine 2012 and Hospital Medicine 2012.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/06/lfe.htm
15 Jun 2012