Search results for "Staffing"
Mandates on minimum nurse-to-patient ratios linked to better outcomes
Hospitals that implemented mandates on nurse-to-patient ratios lowered their patient mortality, and higher staffing was associated with lower readmission rates and shorter length of stay, an Australian study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/19/3.htm
19 May 2021
May 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/
Registered nurse staffing associated with sepsis mortality risk
Each additional registered nurse hour per patient day was associated with a 3% decrease in the odds of 60-day mortality in a cross-sectional study of about 700,000 Medicare beneficiaries admitted with a primary diagnosis of sepsis in 2018.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/01/registered-nurse-staffing-associated-with-sepsis-mortality-risk.htm
1 Jun 2022
April issue online and in the mail
This issue covers deaf patients, nurse staffing, and stethoscope cleaning, among other hot topics. A Twitter chat on Tuesday, April 23, at 6 p.m. Eastern will focus on this month's Q&A on bedside rounding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/17/5.htm
17 Apr 2019
Hearing challenges, nurse staffing
Read this month's issue and then join the conversation during our Twitter chat.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Apr 2019
COVID-19 and obesity, AKI, DKA, antibiotics, symptom checkers, hospital prep
Acute kidney injury (AKI) and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) were worse with COVID-19, antibiotics were overused, and an online symptom checker didn't triage safely, but most hospitals had enough ICU beds and preprocedural COVID-19 testing showed that vaccinations reduced asymptomatic infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/1.htm
17 Mar 2021
November 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/11/
March 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/
COVID-19 research looks at aspirin, disparities, long-term outcomes
Recent aspirin use may be associated with improved COVID-19 outcomes, and hospitals had widely differing mortality rates in April 2020. Half of discharged patients reported ongoing symptoms at four months, and most ICU patients showed evidence of impairments at one month, new studies found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/24/1.htm
24 Mar 2021
A strategy for long stays
Patients with extended hospitalizations got continuity and targeted help under a new program.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/29/a-strategy-for-long-stays.htm
29 Nov 2023