October 8, 2025
Incarcerated inpatients
Understanding the needs of incarcerated patients and the resources available to them can help hospitalists provide the best bedside care.
Cases from the Medical College of Wisconsin
Endocarditis, blastomycosis, choledocholithiasis, and more.
Study finds AI-generated discharge summaries superior to those written by humans
Discharge summaries generated by a large language model at a tertiary care center scored better on nine domains, including comprehensiveness, relevance, and specificity, according to physician reviewers. Those written by humans did use simpler language.
Factors predict patients being infected with C. auris rather than just colonized
Comorbid conditions, invasive devices, and recent procedures were all associated with risk of progressing from Candida auris colonization to infection, a retrospective study of Florida patients found.
Biomarker shows promise for longer-term risk prediction in cardiac ED patients
Growth differentiation factor-15 predicted risk of death or acute myocardial infarction (AMI) within 90 days in patients who were seen in the ED for suspected AMI but did not have an elevated troponin level at the time, an industry-funded study found.
In-hospital delirium risk varies by race, socioeconomic status
Older hospitalized adults who were Black or Hispanic were more likely to have delirium at admission or to develop it during their hospital stay than White patients, a retrospective analysis of more than 260,000 patients found.
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