November 20, 2024
Restoring trust after rough times in residency
The pandemic made many medical trainees less trustful and engaged. A program director talks about how to win them back.
Hypertension
Accurate documentation of hypertensive crisis, urgency, and emergency can have a substantial impact on reimbursement.
Over one-third of surgical inpatients experience adverse events, study suggests
Nearly two in five patients who underwent surgery at one of 11 hospitals in Massachusetts in 2018 experienced adverse events, 60% of which were considered potentially preventable.
Hospitalizations, liver transplants linked to alcohol on the rise across age, gender groups
Between 2005 and 2021, liver transplants associated with alcohol-induced liver disease saw a relative increase of more than 2,000% among women younger than 40 years of age in the U.S., and their liver disease hospitalization rate more than doubled, according to data from the National Inpatient Sample.
Heart failure admission outcomes similar with hospital at home, traditional inpatient stay
More than 90% of acute heart failure patients who were offered hospital at home care accepted it in place of a brick-and-mortar hospital stay, and 84% of them completed home hospitalization without requiring transfer back to the hospital, a retrospective analysis found.
Outcomes similar with hospital-acquired COVID-19 vs. flu, Swiss study finds
A comparison of patients who developed symptomatic omicron-variant COVID-19 or flu during hospitalization found similar case-fatality rates at 6.2% and 6.1%, respectively. ICU admission was required for 2.4% of those with COVID-19 versus 2.6% with influenza.
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