Search results for "Palliative Care"
Procedures for saving the planet
An internal medicine team redesigned their procedure cart and halved the waste produced by bedside procedures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/13/free/procedures-for-saving-the-planet.htm
13 Nov 2024
Palliative care for a pandemic
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/3.htm
8 Apr 2020
Perspectives Examples
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/write/perspectives.html
July 20, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/20/
EHR-based mortality prediction model may help identify patients for palliative care
One hospital's electronic health record (EHR) automatically calculated a score predicting risk for death within six months for medical patients on a hospitalist service, and those with a score of 0.30 or greater were deemed eligible for a palliative care consult.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/24/2.htm
24 Jul 2019
February 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/
Patients increasingly discharged alive from inpatient palliative care, referred to home or outpatient programs
Cancer was still the most common primary diagnosis in those receiving inpatient palliative care, but other diagnoses are becoming more common, according to a retrospective analysis from 2013 to 2017.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/11/4.htm
11 Dec 2019
May 24, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/
Latest COVID-19 research looks at plasma, prophylaxis, palliative care, periop risks
The benefit of convalescent plasma is uncertain, and hydroxychloroquine did not appear to work for prophylaxis, according to new studies. Experts offered advice on using palliative care, avoiding surgery, changing residency applications, and understanding antibody testing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/10/1.htm
10 Jun 2020
January 24, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/