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September 20, 2023

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Q&A | FREE
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Negotiation skills needed more than ever

Financial dealings with hospitals have gotten tougher, but classic strategies can help hospitalists make it through.

Success Story

Community paramedics treating heart failure

Cardiologists and paramedics collaborated to keep some patients out of the hospital.

Geriatrics

Passive EHR tool reduces potentially inappropriate medications in older adults

Dosage of 11 of 16 medications, including haloperidol, decreased at a multihospital system after implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) tool that provided “geriatric context” to prescribing clinicians.

Coronavirus | FREE
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Fungal infection common in critically ill COVID-19 patients

A retrospective study in Belgium found that risk of pulmonary aspergillosis in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients was primarily associated with pre-existing risk factors for invasive mold disease.

Atrial Fibrillation

Fewer health care resources needed after ablation for afib, study finds

In an observational analysis, patients with afib who underwent ablation had fewer hospitalizations and ED visits in the two years after the procedure versus the year before it.

ARDS

IL-18 level may help predict prognosis in ARDS

Elevated plasma IL-18 levels could work better than other models to identify patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) at higher risk for death, a recent study found.