Search results for "Disparities"
A bone to pick
Osteoporosis is undertreated in fragility fracture patients. Hospitalists have an opportunity to help close that gap.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/a-bone-to-pick.htm
24 Jan 2024
Life as a health equity officer
A recent survey of hospitals' health equity officers highlighted challenges they face, including how to get clinicians on board.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/01/life-as-a-health-equity-officer.htm
1 Nov 2023
Early tracheostomy associated with lower mortality, disparities in treatment
Patients who received tracheostomy within 6 days of intubation, instead of after 10 days, had shorter ICU and hospital stays, and were more likely to be white, male, and privately insured.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/09/02/2.htm
2 Sep 2015
June 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/
Risk for adverse outcomes after early-onset MI appears higher in Black patients
Researchers calculated that 45.7% of race-related disparity in major adverse cardiac events after myocardial infarction (MI) among younger and middle-aged patients was due to lower income, highlighting the importance of social determinants of health.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/01/3.htm
1 Sep 2021
COVID-19 tech and disparities
This issue focuses on how the pandemic has driven technological change but also highlighted inequalities in our society.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Sep 2020
Disparities in cardiac surgery mortality partially caused by hospital quality
Much, but not all, of the racial disparity in cardiac surgery outcomes can be explained by nonwhite patients being treating at lower-quality hospitals, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/01/15/2.htm
15 Jan 2014
Admit to where?
Heart failure care can be improved by reducing variation between medicine and cardiology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/admit-to-where.htm
15 Apr 2021
In the News
Alcohol detox protocol, in-hospital STEMI and outcomes, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/05/itn.htm
15 May 2014
Women less likely to get guideline-recommended care for MI with cardiogenic shock
The analysis of patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction (MI) with cardiogenic shock found higher rates of in-hospital mortality and major bleeding in women compared to men but no difference in mortality or heart failure hospitalizations at one year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/23/women-less-likely-to-get-guideline-recommended-care-for-mi-with-cardiogenic-shock.htm
23 Mar 2022