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Palliative care consults by default did not affect inpatient length of stay
Implementation of a default, opt-out palliative care consultation intervention for older hospital patients with advanced chronic illnesses did increase consult rates from 16.6% to 43.9% and significantly increased odds of discharge to hospice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/palliative-care-consults-by-default-did-not-affect-inpatient-length-of-stay.htm
24 Jan 2024
CMS sepsis measure associated with increases in antibiotic use
Use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, especially in sepsis patients, went up after SEP-1 was implemented, but rates of Clostridioides difficile infection decreased.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/02/5.htm
2 Sep 2020
Modified rapid response system could help patients with limited English proficiency
An initiative at one U.S. academic medical center that used automated early warning scores and integrated interpreters into the rapid response system was associated with a decrease in average monthly mortality rates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/modified-rapid-response-system-could-help-patients-with-limited-english-proficiency.htm
28 Feb 2024
Heart failure may be missed despite frequent health care contacts before hospitalization
A Canadian cohort study found that patients with acute heart failure had more outpatient physician visits, hospitalizations for unrelated conditions, and ED visits before index hospitalization than those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or stable heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/18/3.htm
18 Nov 2020
May 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/
August 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/
A COVID ward at home
Two physicians recently told ACP Hospitalist about how their health system got a planned program to provide acute-level care in patients' homes running in two weeks at the start of the pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/25/3.htm
25 Nov 2020
September 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/
Anemia common after hospitalization for critical illness
A cohort study in one Minnesota county found that anemia prevalence was 80% at discharge and 56%, 52%, and 45% at three months, six months, and 12 months, respectively, in patients discharged from the ICU who were alive and had data available.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/30/4.htm
30 Sep 2020
July 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/07/