Search results for "Clinical Care"
Study analyzes sex differences worldwide in patients hospitalized for heart failure
Data from 44 countries in REPORT-HF found that in all geographic regions women in the hospital with heart failure were less likely to receive diagnostic tests or guideline-directed care than men.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/06/study-analyzes-sex-differences-worldwide-in-patients-hospitalized-for-heart-failure.htm
6 Sep 2023
PE risk assessment tools modestly effective for estimating mortality, study finds
The Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI), the simplified PESI (sPESI), the Bova score, and a risk assessment method from the European Society of Cardiology were evaluated.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/02/3.htm
2 Sep 2020
Seeking agreement on SDOH screening
Hospitals struggle with how to handle social determinants of health.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/seeking-agreement-on-sdoh-screening.htm
15 Mar 2020
Talking about COVID-19 with Bob Wachter
ACP Hospitalist recently spoke to Robert Wachter, MD, FACP, about COVID-19 response at the University of California, San Francisco, and in hospitals nationwide.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/01/4.htm
1 Apr 2020
Correcting medicine's use of race
Hospitalists are pushing for changes in eGFR and other algorithms.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/free/correcting-medicines-use-of-race.htm
15 Jan 2021
HIV-related admissions declined from 1996 to 2016, but readmission rates were stable
An analysis of patients treated for HIV in North Carolina found that patients who were older or black had higher risk of hospitalization, as did those with more HIV RNA or lower CD4 counts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/30/5.htm
30 Oct 2019
Top Docs
The doctors recognized in ACP Hospitalist’s first annual Top Hospitalists issue include teachers, quality improvement gurus, researchers and bloggers. They’ve focused on improving geriatric care, growing hospital admissions, facilitating transitions of care and raising staff satisfaction. ACP Hospitalist’s editorial board members sifted through the nominations and narrowed the field down to 10 Top Hospitalists, who are profiled here.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/cover.htm
15 Nov 2008
Nurses and delirium
A reader responds to a recent article on preventing delirium in the ICU.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/letter-to-the-editor.htm
15 Feb 2018
Chatbot performance appears similar to residents', medical students' on tests, studies find
Recent studies asked ChatGPT to generate a history of present illness based on an interview script and to take a clinical reasoning exam given to first- and second-year medical students.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/19/chatbot-performance-appears-similar-to-residents-medical-students-on-tests-studies-find.htm
19 Jul 2023
October 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/