Search results for "COPD"
ACP advises on improving transitions of care
The authors of a recent College policy paper talked about how patients can be handed off more safely.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/10/acp-advises-on-improving-transitions-of-care.htm
10 May 2023
Hospital rankings change when Medicare Advantage patients included
When researchers included both Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries in calculations of CMS performance measures, between 21.6% and 30.2% of hospitals in the top-performing group for readmissions and mortality fell to a lower-performing group.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/29/hospital-rankings-change-when-medicare-advantage-patients-included.htm
29 Mar 2023
Telerehab, unsupervised home training both effective for COPD patients
A small international randomized trial found that the incidence of hospitalizations and ED visits was lower in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) assigned to a telerehabilitation group or unsupervised training group than among controls.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/21/telerehab-unsupervised-home-training-both-effective-for-copd-patients.htm
21 Dec 2022
Do-not-attempt-resuscitation order rates compared for heart failure, other hospital conditions
A retrospective study in California found low overall rates of do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders in patients hospitalized for heart failure, pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with some variation by race.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/23/free/do-not-attempt-resuscitation-order-rates-compared-for-heart-failure-other-hospital-conditions.htm
23 Nov 2022
Tracheostomy tube shortage
The FDA alerted clinicians about the need to reuse tracheostomy tubes and to caution patients about decreased effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis against COVID-19, among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/16/tracheostomy-tube-shortage.htm
16 Nov 2022
Almost half of veterans hospitalized for COPD didn't get spirometry within a year
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were three times as likely to undergo spirometry in the year before or after hospitalization if they had a pulmonary clinic visit, according to Veterans Health Administration data.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/26/almost-half-of-veterans-hospitalized-for-copd-didnt-get-spirometry-within-a-year.htm
26 Oct 2022
Readmission penalties didn't improve COPD exacerbation care
The percentage of patients hospitalized with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who received recommended care increased at a rate of 0.16% per month before implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program compared to 0.01% per month in the four years after.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/10/readmission-penalties-didnt-improve-copd-exacerbation-care.htm
10 Aug 2022
Fragmentation breeds frequency in COPD care
An expert discusses how the locations patients receive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care are tied to their risk of hospitalization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/03/fragmentation-breeds-frequency-in-copd-care.htm
3 Aug 2022
Extra postdischarge COPD care review improved quality of life, not other outcomes
Personalized treatment recommendations delivered to primary care clinicians after patients' hospitalization for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation did not appear to affect rates of mortality or readmissions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/extra-postdischarge-copd-care-review-improved-quality-of-life-not-other-outcomes.htm
6 Apr 2022
Azithromycin associated with less treatment failure than beta-lactams in hospitalized COPD patients
In a retrospective cohort study at six Michigan hospitals, treatment failed in 19.6% of patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who received azithromycin and 32.3% of those who received a beta-lactam.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/30/azithromycin-associated-with-less-treatment-failure-than-beta-lactams-in-hospitalized-copd-patients.htm
30 Mar 2022