Search results for "Hepatitis"
In the News
Alcohol misuse screening, hepatitis C follow-up testing, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/08/itn.htm
15 Aug 2013
USPSTF recommends hepatitis C screening for baby boomers and high-risk patients
All patients born between 1945 and 1965 should be screened for hepatitis C virus (HCV), as should all high-risk patients, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently recommended.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/06/26/2.htm
26 Jun 2013
MKSAP quiz on delirium
These cases and commentary, which address delirium, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/ty.htm
15 Jun 2013
HIV in the hospital
All doctors should be screening patients age 13 through 64 for HIV.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/hiv.htm
15 Jun 2013
Nailing down the nephrotic syndrome
Blood and urine composition provide key clues.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/nephrotic.htm
15 Jun 2013
More follow-up testing needed for positive hepatitis C antibody tests
Clinicians should perform an RNA hepatitis C virus (HCV) test to more definitively diagnose patients after a positive antibody test, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/05/15/4.htm
15 May 2013
Cases from Yale-New Haven Hospital: Trainee Edition
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis associated with cocaine abuse, the Sister Mary Joseph nodule as presentation of advanced malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, and other cases are discussed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/05/bc.htm
15 May 2013
Docs need to step up HIV screening
All doctors, whether inpatient, outpatient or specialist, should screen all patients age 13 through 64 for HIV per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, said Stacey Rizza, MD, chair of HIV and outpatient infectious disease at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/17/1.htm
17 Apr 2013
In the News
Guidelines for STEMI, ADA recommendations for blood pressure in diabetics, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/itn.htm
15 Mar 2013
In the News
ICU transfer, daily sedation interruption, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/itn.htm
15 Feb 2013