Search results for "Highlights"
February issue is online and in the mail
This issue highlights discussions around feeding tubes in advanced dementia and decision making about ICU admission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/02/13/5.htm
13 Feb 2019
April 20, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/20/
June 22, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/22/
December issue online and in the mail
This issue highlights the challenge of giving residents both supervision and autonomy and preparing for nerve agent exposure, along with coverage from multiple clinical conferences.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/12/5.htm
12 Dec 2018
Latest COVID-19 research looks at tocilizumab, remdesivir, tracheostomy, readmissions
A living systematic review still didn't find benefit from remdesivir or tocilizumab, but new trials supported their use. Delaying tracheostomy may not help patients or clinicians, another study found, and the first 10 days carry increased readmission risk for COVID-19 patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/23/1.htm
23 Dec 2020
User-friendly EHRs also more safety-friendly
Why might easy-to-use electronic health records (EHRs) provide better medication safety? The coauthor of a recent study explains.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/18/free/user-friendly-ehrs-also-more-safety-friendly.htm
18 Oct 2023
Medications that can exacerbate heart failure often continued despite heart failure hospitalization
Many heart failure patients were still prescribed albuterol, metformin, or diltiazem at discharge, as well as many other medications on the American Heart Association's list of drugs that can precipitate or induce heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/13/3.htm
13 Nov 2019
Plenary sessions, new research are highlights at 37th Critical Care Congress
Plenary sessions, new research are highlights at 37th Critical Care Congress.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/ccc.htm
15 May 2008
Opioids were commonly used for acute gout treatment, ED study finds
More than 28% of patients with acute gout who were discharged from an ED received an opioid prescription, even though there are other treatment options.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/17/3.htm
17 Jul 2019
Observation, ED treat-and-discharge visits rose in parallel with drop in readmissions
A new analysis of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program found that hospital revisits within 30 days actually increased among Medicare patients admitted for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia from 2012 to 2015.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/21/3.htm
21 Aug 2019