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Addiction experts offered strategies for starting medications for substance use disorders, specifically opioids and alcohol.
Addiction experts offered strategies for starting medications for substance use disorders, specifically opioids and alcohol.
A physician and a lawyer explain why it's important to search for alternatives to a court-appointed guardian for a patient.
Reviewers comparing discharge summaries for 100 patients that were generated by physicians or artificial intelligence (AI) did find more errors in the latter group, at a mean of 2.91 per summary versus 1.82.
Over two years, weekly whole genome sequencing allowed a hospital's infection control team to identify 172 outbreaks, ranging in size from two to 16 patients, and prevent an estimated 62 infections and 4.8 deaths.
There was no difference in burnout prevalence based on facility type or between primary care physicians versus hospitalists. However, physicians in the Western part of the U.S. were significantly more likely to report burnout than those in other regions of the country.
Patients from racial/ethnic minority groups received significantly fewer opioids for pain control than White patients, particularly if they had substance use disorders, a U.S. retrospective cohort study found.
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Regulators and researchers are taking a look at hospitals' charity care. Physicians might want to, too.
The FDA approved fitusiran, a new treatment for hemophilia, and tenecteplase to treat ischemic stroke, among other recent actions.
Either oral or extended-release naltrexone at hospital discharge led to significant reductions in alcohol use at three months among patients with alcohol use disorder, with no statistically significant difference in effectiveness between the two formulations, according to results of a single-center trial.
A study of patients who had an ICU stay of four days or longer and no history of falls found that 61% fell at least once in the first year after discharge, with most falling at least twice and approximately one in four requiring medical attention.
Rates of community-onset antimicrobial-resistant infections were elevated at the peak of the pandemic but then returned to levels seen in 2018 to 2019, while hospital-onset infections, especially with some of the carbapenem-resistant bacteria, stayed significantly above baseline.
Use of physical and chemical restraints decreased from 4.3% to 0.7% and from 7.6% to 2.3%, respectively, after implementation of an intervention that stressed systematic screening and assessment of mentation and individualized plans for delirium or dementia management.
Physicians discussed the peril and potential of artificial intelligence taking on medical tasks during Internal Medicine Meeting 2025.
Expert thinking about contrast and kidney injury has shifted again, focusing on a few specific patient factors.