Search results for "Quality Improvement"
Failing at heart failure treatment
Readmissions for heart failure cause financial problems for hospitals and even more pressing problems for patients. Everyone from Medicare to individual physicians is focused on methods of improvement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/08/heart.htm
15 Aug 2010
Uncertainty on nurse staffing despite regs, research
Opinions are heated, but data are limited, on how many nurses are best for patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/uncertainty-on-nurse-staffing-despite-regs-research.htm
15 Apr 2019
Top Docs
Meet our 2014 Top Hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/topdocs.htm
15 Nov 2014
Antimicrobial prophylaxis guidelines often not followed after elective surgery
A retrospective cohort study of 521,091 inpatient surgeries at 825 U.S. hospitals found that vancomycin was the most frequently misused agent and its use was associated with increased rates of acute kidney injury.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/22/antimicrobial-prophylaxis-guidelines-often-not-followed-after-elective-surgery.htm
22 Feb 2023
Model developed to predict mortality risk after transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Data from 13,718 consecutive U.S. patients in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry were used to develop the model.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/16/2.htm
16 Mar 2016
Top Docs: Meet our 2009 Top Hospitalists
Welcome to our second annual Top Hospitalists issue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/topdocs.htm
15 Nov 2009
Seeing readmissions from the patient's point of view
Researchers begin to investigate patient-reported outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/patient-readmissions.htm
15 Sep 2015
Doing more for COPD patients during hospitalization
Expand your focus to accurate diagnosis, cardiovascular health, and self-management.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/doing-more-for-copd-patients-during-hospitalization.htm
15 Oct 2018
‘Skip the Drips' reduced PPI overuse
Residents and fellows at one hospital corrected overuse of proton-pump inhibitor infusions for upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/success-story-skip-the-drips-ppi-overuse.htm
15 Feb 2018
Launching mentorship programs
Hospital medicine leaders are building formal mentorship programs, from relatively traditional systems to new twists on such cornerstones as visiting professorships and networking.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/09/launching-mentorship-programs.htm
15 Sep 2017