Search results for "Highlights"
Afib initiative strives to close a quality gap
The goal is getting more physicians to recognize and treat at-risk patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/08/afib.htm
15 Aug 2012
Targeting smoking cessation efforts
Hospitalists can tailor therapies and increase the chance that patients will quit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/targeting-smoking-cessation-efforts.htm
15 Feb 2018
Procalcitonin and other changes in medicine
This issue focuses on procalcitonin testing, hospitalist training in residency, oncology care communication, and femoral access for central lines.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Aug 2018
Subsegmental pulmonary embolism
An example patient with sickle cell disease provides a lesson in diagnosing subsegmental pulmonary embolism.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/expert-analysis-subsegmental-pulmonary-embolism.htm
15 Feb 2019
Women hospitalized for heart failure may have lower quality of life than men
Women and men with acute heart failure had similar clinical outcomes and risk of mortality and rehospitalization, but there were differences in therapy and women reported lower health-related quality of life, a retrospective analysis of a trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/3.htm
17 Mar 2021
Adults hospitalized with RSV had worse outcomes than those with influenza
Patients with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) were at higher risk of a long hospital stay and mechanical ventilation versus those with influenza, a prospective study found. The former group also had more pre-existing cardiopulmonary conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/01/adults-hospitalized-with-rsv-had-worse-outcomes-than-those-with-influenza.htm
1 Feb 2023
Persistent depressive symptoms linked to death, readmission after HF hospitalization
Heart failure (HF) patients with persistent depressive symptoms at one month after discharge had more than double the risk of cardiovascular death within a year as those without depression, a Chinese study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/21/persistent-depressive-symptoms-linked-to-death-readmission-after-hf-hospitalization.htm
21 Dec 2022
‘Warm handoffs,’ rapid response calls
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/11/in-the-news.htm
15 Nov 2017
Treatment of post-thrombolysis hemorrhage fails to reduce mortality, hematoma growth
There was a suggestion of benefit from hemorrhage treatment, but receiving an endovascular neurointerventional procedure and having a higher hematoma volume were the factors significantly associated with in-hospital mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/04/3.htm
4 Nov 2015
Primary care, discharging, and admitting physicians disagree about readmission causes
The physicians most commonly cited factors related to patient understanding and ability to self-manage as contributing causes to readmission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/22/1.htm
22 Jun 2016