April 2, 2025
Be alert to elder abuse
Hospitals are mustering multidisciplinary teams to help physicians address this growing problem.
Have scope—will travel
You never know what will get a patient to open up.
Hospital tested providing zoledronic acid to inpatients with hip fracture
An intervention to provide osteoporosis treatment during hospitalization and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry after discharge resulted in 58% of low-trauma hip fracture patients receiving anti-osteoporosis treatment within six months of admission, a Danish study found.
Deprescribing sedatives during hospitalization may reduce adverse events, study finds
Older patients who had sedatives deprescribed during hospitalization were substantially less likely to experience any adverse event within 30 days, while those who had the drugs newly prescribed at discharge had double the risk for falls.
Arterial blood gas testing in ICU patients varies by race, sex
Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latino, and female patients get fewer arterial blood gas tests, even after adjustment for illness severity and hospital characteristics, a multicenter cohort study of critical care found.
Hospitalizations common among patients with substance use disorder
The finding that 9.7% of patients with substance use disorder reported a hospitalization in the past year highlights the potential benefit of hospital-based screening and treatment programs on substance use, according to the authors of a new study.
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