Search results for "End-of-Life Care"
Hospice referral often not timely in hemodialysis patients, study finds
The median length of hospice stay for Medicare patients receiving maintenance dialysis near the end of life was five days, and 41.5% received hospice services for three or fewer days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/09/1.htm
9 May 2018
Recent Research
Outpatient vs. inpatient PE treatment, handheld echocardiography and length of stay, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/rr.htm
15 Dec 2011
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Hospitalists' cost-effectiveness, vasopressin antagonists and hyponatremia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/jw.htm
15 Feb 2011
Top Docs
Our call for nominations last spring yielded an impressive number of nominees, from which our editorial board selected the ten featured here. These physicians have done admirable work in patient rounding, resident education, technology, workload balance, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/coverstory.htm
15 Nov 2013
Talking points on palliative care
Speakers at the recent National Palliative Care Summit discussed strategies for changing and improving Americans' perceptions of palliative care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/palliative.htm
15 May 2011
It's not an admission, it's an experience
When former hospitalist M. Bridget Duffy, MD, became chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic last year, she explored every aspect of the hospital’s operation and set out to improve it. The changes instituted by her office of patient experience are making the Cleveland Clinic look and feel more like part of a very customer-service-oriented industry. That's no coincidence, say experts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/cover.htm
15 Feb 2008
What not to do in palliative care
Some things physicians thought they were doing to help patients at the end of life are actually ineffective and even potentially harmful.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/conference-coverage-palliative-care.htm
15 Dec 2015
Advance care planning assessed, therapeutic heparin debated in recent COVID-19 articles
Along with an analysis of the pre-existing conditions of patients who died of COVID-19 and a point/counterpoint on use of heparin in ward patients, the latest inpatient COVID-19 research included negative trials of losartan and a potential monoclonal antibody.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/23/free/advance-care-planning-assessed-therapeutic-heparin-debated-in-recent-covid-19-articles.htm
23 Mar 2022
POLSTs: Having the right conversation at the right time
Balance is often needed to sensitively convey one's opinions while respecting patient wishes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/12/polst.htm
15 Dec 2013
Fewer Medicare beneficiaries dying in the hospital, but ICU use at end of life still common
The retrospective cohort study included a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who died in 2000, 2005, 2009, 2011, or 2015.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/04/1.htm
4 Jul 2018