March 26, 2025
Analyzing academic nocturnists
Nocturnists have become increasingly common in academic hospital medicine, but there's been surprisingly little study of their role, an author of a recent review explains.
Give patients a rest
Brainstorming with frontline staff helped one hospital provide quieter nights for its patients.
AHA offers advice on blood culture-negative endocarditis
A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) highlighted the potential of novel diagnostic tools to offer advances in care.
Nudging physicians about communication with ICU patients did not reduce LOS
A reminder to discuss treatment alternatives was associated with increased hospice use and less time to comfort-focused care but no changes in hospital length of stay (LOS) in a trial among ICU patients with chronic serious illness at 10 U.S. hospitals.
Secure messaging drives increases in EHR use, attention switching
On average, hospital clinicians spent a median of 250.5 minutes per day in the electronic health record (EHR), and those in the 75th percentile of secure messaging volume spent 25.5 more minutes per day in the EHR compared to those in the 25th percentile.
‘Broken heart syndrome’ poses risk of readmission comparable to myocardial infarction
Patients who have been treated for takotsubo syndrome are at higher risk of subsequent hospitalization, especially for cardiovascular conditions but also for stroke, gastrointestinal, and neurological conditions, a retrospective Scottish study found.
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