April 12, 2023
Strategies to prevent violence in hospitals
Two CONVERGE sessions explained how patient-behavior agreements and de-escalation training can help hospitalists avert aggressive acts by patients.
Retain physicians with these 10 tools
A program leader offered strategies and processes to keep hospitalists on board and moving up.
Hospital medicine still has few programs with substantial research funding, training
While federal funding for hospitalist research and publication of the results increased from 2010 to 2019, most program leaders reported receiving less than $500,000 of funding and only 14% indicated they had a research fellowship or similar training program, a recent small survey found.
No temperature cutoff accurately identifies patients with bacteremia
An analysis of hospital records found a U-shaped relationship between body temperature and bacteremia, with the highest risk at 103 °F or above; however, only 45% of patients with bacteremia had a maximum temperature of 100.4 °F or above during hospitalization.
Few low-risk inpatients with CAP switched from IV to oral therapy
Patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who transitioned from IV to oral antibiotics by day 3 had shorter length of stay and lower hospitalization cost than those who did not, with no increase in 14-day mortality or ICU admission, a retrospective study found.
ACP resources can help fulfill new DEA training requirement on substance use disorders
Starting June 27, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will require registered physicians to provide a one-time attestation that they have completed eight hours of training, and ACP's education resources can help.