Search results for "Disparities"
Long-term survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest lower in black patients
The difference in outcomes between black and white patients was only partly eliminated by adjustment for patient and hospital treatment factors, leading study authors to speculate that postacute care contributed to the disparity.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/18/3.htm
18 Jul 2018
Cardiologist care less likely for African-Americans in ICU with heart failure, study finds
Receiving primary ICU care from a cardiologist was associated with better in-hospital survival, and this association did not differ according to patient race.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/02/2.htm
2 May 2018
HCAP guidelines, CPR survival, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/04/recent-research.htm
15 Apr 2018
Frail elderly, Enterobacteriaceae infections, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/recent-research.htm
15 Mar 2018
Targeting smoking cessation efforts
Hospitalists can tailor therapies and increase the chance that patients will quit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/targeting-smoking-cessation-efforts.htm
15 Feb 2018
Making readmission penalties hospital-wide could hurt safety-net facilities more than others
Researchers estimated the effects of changing from the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program's existing condition-specific readmission measures to an annual hospital-wide measure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/25/4.htm
25 Oct 2017
Frail elderly account for majority of potentially preventable Medicare spending
Spending was compared among six groups of Medicare beneficiaries: nonelderly disabled, frail elderly, major complex chronic, minor complex chronic, simple chronic, and relatively healthy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/18/4.htm
18 Oct 2017
Politics and the wellness of our foreign-born colleagues
Travel bans and visa-law changes in a volatile political arena can affect the morale of a large number of physicians, in training and established in practice, as well as international students enrolled in medical schools in the United States.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/perspectives-politics-and-foreign-born-colleagues.htm
15 Oct 2017
Improvement seen in survival differences by race after in-hospital cardiac arrest
The reduction in survival difference by race appeared to be linked to elimination of racial differences in survival of acute resuscitation, while differences in postresuscitation survival persisted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/16/4.htm
16 Aug 2017
Taking stock of the readmission penalties
CMS program has led to lower readmissions but may need updating.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/04/penalties.htm
15 Apr 2017