Search results for "Geriatrics"
ACEing geriatric care
With their special focus, Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) units have the potential to eliminate many of the issues that make hospitalization more difficult for elderly patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/coverstory.htm
15 Feb 2011
Letter from the Editor
This issue contains articles on optimizing geriatric care, publishing a quality improvement project and preventing catheter-associated infections, among others.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/lfe.htm
15 Feb 2011
Recognizing, preventing and treating delirium
If you remember only one thing about treating agitation and delirium in the hospital, it should be to avoid benzodiazepines, said Brian Huang, ACP Member, assistant professor of medicine in the division of hospital medicine at the University of California San Diego, during the hospital medicine precourse at Internal Medicine 2011.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/13/1.htm
13 Apr 2011
Talking points on palliative care
Speakers at the recent National Palliative Care Summit discussed strategies for changing and improving Americans' perceptions of palliative care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/palliative.htm
15 May 2011
No halfway measures
Partial DNRs may be attractive to patients, but they may cause more problems than they solve.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/coverstory.htm
15 Jun 2011
Dressed to kill
A doctor's elegant attire causes trouble in more ways than one.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/newman.htm
15 Jun 2011
Recognizing, preventing and treating delirium
A large proportion of inpatients have delirium, but in most, it goes unrecognized.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/delirium.htm
15 Jun 2011
DNR decisions by surrogates common, take longer
More than half of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders were completed by a surrogate decision maker in a recent study at one urban, public hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/27/4.htm
27 Jul 2011
Hospitalist-led ACE units show positive results
Two new trials of acute care for the elderly (ACE) services included hospitalists and found potential benefits to these alternative models of geriatric care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/17/4.htm
17 Aug 2011
Mortality with later hip fracture surgery linked to medical reasons for delay
Late hip fracture surgery carries a higher mortality risk than early surgery, but mostly because of underlying medical reasons for the delay and not the delay itself, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/17/5.htm
17 Aug 2011