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May 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/05/
March 13, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/13/
Highlights from ACP Journal Club
MODS assay better at detecting TB but poses challenges in developing countries, et al.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/03/highlight-jc.htm
15 Mar 2007
Hospital medicine update
The reimbursement spotlight is shifting to pay-for-performance, and this year's moderators for the update in hospital medicine at Internal Medicine 2007 in San Diego discussed its impact on physicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/med-update.htm
15 Jun 2007
Aiming for zero
Five years ago, when a surgeon told staff at Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pa., that a central line infection (CLI) could contribute to a patient's death, it made them even more determined to find and resolve the problems—both clinical and cultural—that stood in the way of preventing infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/aim-zero.htm
15 Jun 2007
Acute ventilatory failure
A 63-year-old woman is evaluated in the emergency department for a three-day history of increasing dyspnea... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/ventil-failure.htm
15 Jun 2007
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about C. difficile colitis, elderly patients and sleeping pills, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/journal-watch.htm
15 Sep 2007
CMS issues final reimbursement rules
CMS recently issued final rules on payment for inpatient hospital services and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/cms.htm
15 Sep 2007
Doctor, don't be a hero: Getting VAP to zero takes teamwork
Giving up a little of his traditional role in ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention has paid off in a lighter workload and better patient outcomes for one hospitalist at Bloomington Hospital in Bloomington, Ind.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/vap.htm
15 Sep 2007
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about spirometry for COPD, as-needed relaparotomy, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/journal-watch.htm
15 Oct 2007