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More medications in advanced life-limiting illness can lower quality of life, increase symptom burden

Polypharmacy may be particularly burdensome near the end of life as patients accumulate medications to treat and prevent multiple diseases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/02/13/4.htm
13 Feb 2019

Making time for family

Collaboration with patients' families offers benefits.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/making-time-for-family.htm
15 Oct 2018

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A resident discovers a very special hospital computer.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/newmans-notions-deleted.htm
15 Feb 2019

Care transitions, hypertension, and more

Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/in-the-news.htm
15 Feb 2019

Difficult decisions

Learn about dilemmas related to feeding tubes in advanced dementia and ICU admission in this month's issue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Feb 2019

Depression

Depression should be classified by episode, severity, and state of remission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/12/coding-corner-depression.htm
15 Dec 2019

Problem of PPIs complicated by COVID-19

Despite quality improvement efforts, there's still uncertainty regarding proton-pump inhibitors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/problem-of-ppis-complicated-by-covid-19.htm
15 Apr 2021

MKSAP quiz on discharge planning

This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on discharge planning.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/mksap-quiz-on-discharge-planning.htm
15 Feb 2021

U.S. uses mechanical ventilation much more than Canada, England, especially for elderly

Invasive mechanical ventilation was provided to 209 patients ages 80 years or older per 100,000 population in England, compared to 694 in Canada and 1,788 in the U.S., an analysis of 2018 data showed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/05/us-uses-mechanical-ventilation-much-more-than-canada-england-especially-for-elderly.htm
5 Jul 2023

Ease up on antipsychotics

Antipsychotics started for an episode of agitation in the ICU are often continued through hospitalization and even after discharge, posing serious health risks to patients, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/ease-up-on-antipsychotics.htm
6 Apr 2022

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