Search results for "Transitions of Care"
Global health hospitalists
More physicians are focusing on a particular country, and frequently a particular hospital, to bring about lasting change.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/coverstory.htm
15 Jan 2013
When patients won't leave
Strategies to achieve a timely discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/discharge-strategies.htm
15 Apr 2015
Act early to avert AKI
Incidence of acute kidney injury is increasing, due in part to advances in medical care and an aging population, and hospitalists need to know how to manage it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/kidney.htm
15 Oct 2013
Take the C-TraIn
Oregon Health ##amp; Science University helped improve transitions by paying community clinics to serve as medical homes for low-income patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/03/ctrain.htm
15 Mar 2012
Mobile apps enter the hospital
An expert discusses which apps hospitalists should know about and how they can begin to prescribe them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/mobile-apps.htm
15 Dec 2015
CME credits available in patient safety supplement
A supplement to the March 5 Annals of Internal Medicine, which offers 11 CME credits, focuses on a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–funded project, “Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices.”
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/03/06/6.htm
6 Mar 2013
Survey finds low rates of communication between inpatient, primary care teams
Primary care physicians differed in their preferred mode of communication about patients' hospitalizations, with some preferring telephone contact, others preferring electronic health record notifications, and some wanting faxes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/11/15/4.htm
15 Nov 2017
March 2, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/02/
September 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/09/
Letter from the Editor
Studies have shown that critically ill patients who are given “sedation vacationsâ€ï¿½ consisting of spontaneous awakening trials (SATs) and spontaneous breathing trials spend less time on the ventilator and less time in the ICU overall. But many hospitals don’t follow written policy on performing SATs, and a large proportion don’t use SATs in the majority of their patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/lfe.htm
15 Sep 2009