Search results for "Diagnosis"
Machine learning model predicts sepsis in ICU patients up to 12 hours before diagnosis
The next step for the tool will be to have its clinical utility analyzed in a prospective study, with the goal of having patients treated with IV antibiotics, fluids, and other adjunct therapies according to a reliable estimate of how likely they are to develop sepsis in the near future, the authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/10/4.htm
10 Jan 2018
Clarifying criteria for acute respiratory failure
The diagnosis of acute respiratory failure is one of those most commonly denied by payers, so understanding the current documentation criteria is crucial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/27/clarifying-criteria-for-acute-respiratory-failure.htm
27 Mar 2024
New guidelines cover VTE prophylaxis, diagnosis, anticoagulation, and HIT
Several guidelines related to venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention and treatment were recently published by the American Society of Hematology, with more promised soon.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/05/1.htm
5 Dec 2018
Delirium in the hospital may have a dose-response association with dementia
Hospitalized patients with delirium had three times the risk for incident dementia over 5.25 years of follow-up versus those without, and each additional delirium episode was associated with a 20% increase in dementia risk, an Australian study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/03/delirium-in-the-hospital-may-have-a-dose-response-association-with-dementia.htm
3 Apr 2024
Diagnoses of Medicare ICU patients have shifted
Cardiovascular disease remains the top disease category of primary diagnoses, but it declined yearly from 1996 to 2010, while infection-related diagnoses, especially sepsis, rose.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/23/2.htm
23 Mar 2016
April 3, 2024
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Cases from the Medical College of Wisconsin
A mycotic aneurysm, retroperitoneal hematoma, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/free/cases-from-the-medical-college-of-wisconsin.htm
28 Feb 2024
Cancer diagnoses often given quickly, impersonally
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/07/14/4.htm
14 Jul 2010
Babesiosis
An older patient with multiple comorbidities presented with headaches, fevers, myalgias, arthralgias, and some loss of balance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/20/free/babesiosis.htm
20 Dec 2023
Central thermometers preferred to peripheral when temperature could influence diagnosis, treatment
Researchers reviewed 75 published prospective studies comparing the accuracy of tympanic membrane, temporal artery, axillary, or oral thermometers with pulmonary artery catheter, urinary bladder, esophageal, or rectal thermometers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/18/4.htm
18 Nov 2015