September 11, 2024
The rewards of being friendly
CMS is going to start measuring how age-friendly hospitals are. An expert explains the plan, including hospitalists' role.
Promoting hospital at home
A health system encouraged physicians to refer patients to hospital at home with a program that included nurses, data-driven feedback, and the C-suite.
One in five COVID-19 deaths during delta wave may have resulted from hospital strain
Similar relationships between capacity strain and COVID-19 mortality were seen in both large and small hospitals and those with and without extracorporeal membrane oxygenation capability, an analysis of 2021 data from 620 U.S. facilities found.
Safe to either continue or discontinue RAS inhibitors perioperatively, study finds
No differences in all-cause mortality or major postoperative complications were seen among patients whose renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors were continued or discontinued prior to major noncardiac surgery, though patients who continued the medications had a higher risk of hypotension during surgery, a trial in France found.
Corticosteroids appear safe but ineffective in M. pneumoniae pneumonia
Hospitalized adults with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia who received adjunctive corticosteroids had similar time to hypoxemia regression and length of stay but shorter fever duration versus controls, a Swedish cohort study found.
Adding antiplatelet or anticoagulant to thrombolysis didn't improve stroke outcomes
Ischemic stroke patients who were randomized to IV argatroban or eptifibatide within 75 minutes of initiation of thrombolysis had higher mortality and lower Rankin scale scores at 90 days than patients given a placebo, a trial found.
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