
Adding up adverse events
Patient safety experts talk about the latest data and what hospitalists can do to improve them.
Patient safety experts talk about the latest data and what hospitalists can do to improve them.
A physician offers tips on how hospitalists can make more use of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD.
Rates of discharge to a skilled nursing facility instead of home dropped from about 13% before implementation of the STRIDE (AssiSTed EaRly MobIlity for HospitalizeD VEterans) program to 8% afterward in a randomized trial at eight Veterans Affairs hospitals.
Intensive blood pressure treatment in the first 48 hours of hospitalization for a noncardiovascular diagnosis was associated with greater risk of a composite outcome that included cardiac injury, acute kidney injury, and transfer to the ICU.
Internal medicine chief residents trained and supervised interns in ultrasound-guided procedures during a four-week rotation. Rates of overall procedure success, complications, and major complications were 94%, 2.6%, and 0.6%, respectively, according to analysis from 2011 to 2022.
Most (60.8%) of the HIV-negative patients with cryptococcosis had another immunocompromising condition, according to the retrospective study using 2015 to 2019 data from hospitals in Australia and New Zealand.
Incarcerated patients have a right to medication for opioid use disorder, and hospitalists can help them access it.
A patient was admitted with right hip pain from a chronic prosthetic joint infection.
A retrospective study of hospitalized Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries found no differences in 30-day mortality, readmissions, length of stay, or spending between those cared for by physicians with an allopathic versus an osteopathic degree.
A high-intensity care strategy after discharge was associated with a reduced risk of death and heart failure readmission at 180 days, regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), a prespecified analysis of a randomized trial found.
Emailing primary hospital team members about their older or seriously ill patients' current code status with suggested language about goals of care had a particularly large effect on whether these conversations occurred with patients of minoritized race or ethnicity, a trial found.
The new guideline from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) covers diagnosis and management of the condition and replaces the organizations' 2012 guideline.
Five strategies can help hospitalists achieve diagnostic excellence, a researcher says.
Hospitalized patients with positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results were significantly more likely to have a false-positive fourth-generation HIV test than those with negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR test results, a retrospective study found.
A review comparing strategies for primary spontaneous pneumothorax found that chest tube and aspiration were more likely to result in resolution of the condition without additional intervention, but patients who underwent observation instead had the shortest length of stay.
The trial randomly assigned participants scheduled for intra-abdominal cancer operations to receive either usual care or an intervention including preoperative consultation with palliative care specialists and postoperative inpatient and outpatient palliative care follow-up for 90 days.
The findings of a retrospective analysis suggest that the development and validation of clinical decision rules for diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE) didn't affect use of CT pulmonary angiography in European EDs, according to the authors.