August 7, 2024
Homelessness and hospitals
Hospitals and hospitalists are taking a harder look at their care for patients experiencing homelessness.
Creative writing for clinicians
Started as a small group of doctors who wrote, an organization led to hundreds of published creative works over 15 years.
Most patients hospitalized with pneumonia had discordant initial, discharge diagnoses
Patients who were discharged from the hospital with a pneumonia diagnosis after being admitted from the ED with a different diagnosis had higher 30-day mortality than those with concordant diagnoses, a retrospective Veterans Affairs study found.
Patients with HIV have similar inpatient mortality from CAP as those without HIV
Patients diagnosed with AIDS who were hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) had threefold the inpatient mortality of those with HIV and CAP but not AIDS, a retrospective Canadian study found.
Hospitals acquired by private equity have less debt beforehand, decreased assets afterward
Private equity (PE) firms acquired hospitals that owned more of their inherent value and were less in debt, according to one study, while a second study found that assets of PE-acquired hospitals decreased 24% in the two years after acquisition versus controls.
Stigmatizing language commonly used in records of hospitalized patients with OUD
Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) were nine times as likely to have stigmatizing versus affirming language in their medical records, with 34% of stigmatizing language resulting from system-generated fields, such as dropdown categories and diagnosis codes, a recent study found.
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