Search results for "Imaging"
Expert clinical decision pathway details diagnosis, management of myocarditis
The guidance from the American College of Cardiology includes a five-step care pathway for myocarditis, including strategies for diagnosis, risk stratification, and surveillance, and proposes four new stages of disease classification.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/18/expert-clinical-decision-pathway-details-diagnosis-management-of-myocarditis.htm
18 Dec 2024
New guidance on CPR, chest imaging, and ECMO
Medical societies addressed appropriate resuscitation and chest imaging practices for patients with COVID-19, as well as general use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/2.htm
15 Apr 2020
ACP Hospitalist - Brief Case Guidelines
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/write/brief-case-submission-guidelines.html
Reflections on a future past
After medicine makes the transition from the electronic record to the subdermal medical chart, what will you do when your devices are down?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/04/reflections-on-a-future-past.htm
4 Dec 2024
CT perfusion imaging not often available at hospitals treating acute ischemic stroke
In findings from a Texas Medicare cohort validated with national data, 3% of patients with acute ischemic stroke were evaluated with CT perfusion, and most cases were evaluated at hospitals that did not offer this test.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/31/4.htm
31 Mar 2021
Socioeconomic disparities to come
AI's potential for medicine could vary dramatically from hospital to hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/04/socioeconomic-disparities-to-come.htm
4 Dec 2024
Unnecessary blood tests and imaging common in cellulitis hospitalizations, study finds
Over two-thirds of patients with uncomplicated cellulitis received imaging, none of which would have been recommended by guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/04/11/2.htm
11 Apr 2018
March 20, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/
Clinical decision support may be best strategy to reduce imaging for pulmonary embolism
In a systematic review of 17 studies, electronic clinical decision support was associated with a reduction in the use of imaging ranging between 8.3% and 25.4%, a rise in diagnostic yield of 3.4% to 4.4%, and an increase in appropriate ordering of 18% to 19%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/10/3.htm
10 Jan 2018
April 17, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/17/