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The cover story of our May issue looks at fixing electronic health records, while other articles focus on wayfinding apps, unbefriended patients, and poststroke epilepsy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/17/5.htm
17 May 2017
July 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/07/
Clinical decision support may be best strategy to reduce imaging for pulmonary embolism
In a systematic review of 17 studies, electronic clinical decision support was associated with a reduction in the use of imaging ranging between 8.3% and 25.4%, a rise in diagnostic yield of 3.4% to 4.4%, and an increase in appropriate ordering of 18% to 19%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/10/3.htm
10 Jan 2018
Sedation practices worsened during pandemic among patients without COVID-19
The percentage of mechanically ventilated patients treated with sustained deep sedation following intubation rose during the pandemic and did not improve after its peak, a single-center study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/sedation-practices-worsened-during-pandemic-among-patients-without-covid-19.htm
24 Jan 2024
October issue available online and in print
The October ACP Hospitalist is now available, with a cover story about ransomware attacks on electronic health records.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/10/19/5.htm
19 Oct 2016
Replace diagnostic errors with excellence
Five strategies can help hospitalists achieve diagnostic excellence, a researcher says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/free/replace-diagnostic-errors-with-excellence.htm
24 May 2023
EHR access for inpatients shows promise in small trial
Giving inpatients access to their electronic health records (EHRs) during hospitalization appeared to improve empowerment and did not seem to affect clinician or nurse workload, according to a small new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/18/2.htm
18 Mar 2015
Adding up adverse events
Patient safety experts talk about the latest data and what hospitalists can do to improve them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/adding-up-adverse-events.htm
7 Jun 2023
Paper records containing personal information not always properly discarded by hospitals
All five hospitals in the Canadian study had personally identifiable information or personal health information found in their recycling bins, with physician offices being the most common location.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/21/4.htm
21 Mar 2018
How to help the hot spots: Nursing homes and COVID-19
ACP Hospitalist recently interviewed Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, about the COVID-19 situation in nursing homes and how hospitalists can make it better.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/03/3.htm
3 Jun 2020