Search results for "Opioids"
Studies look at outcomes with drug use and heart failure, infective endocarditis
Almost 10% of patients with acute heart failure tested positive for drug use, a French study found, while an analysis of U.S. patients who injected drugs and underwent surgery for infective endocarditis found that 79% had relapsed and 68% had died by five years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/21/studies-look-at-outcomes-with-drug-use-and-heart-failure-infective-endocarditis.htm
21 Feb 2024
April 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/04/
September 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/09/
Non-opioid pain management regimen may reduce costs, length of stay, overall opioid use
Gastrointestinal surgical patients treated with a non-opioid pain management regimen had less overall opioid use and shorter length of stay and incurred fewer hospital costs than those treated with an opioid-based regimen, a new analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/02/3.htm
2 Jul 2014
May 31, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/31/
A closer look at HAP
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is both more dangerous and more complex than previously thought, says the author of a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/12/a-closer-look-at-hap.htm
12 Jul 2023
May 24, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/
Restrictive postop opioid protocols associated with changes in opioid prescribing, chronic use
Opioids prescribed after surgery and rates of conversion to long-term therapy decreased after a protocol limiting postop opioid prescriptions to three days or fewer was implemented at a tertiary care cancer center.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/11/restrictive-postop-opioid-protocols-associated-with-changes-in-opioid-prescribing-chronic-use.htm
11 Jan 2023
Stewardship program improved perioperative opioid prescribing
A project in a safety-net health system reduced use of hydrocodone-acetaminophen for surgical patients and increased prescribing of acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and oxycodone to them without increasing overall opioid use or returns to the ED.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/21/stewardship-program-improved-perioperative-opioid-prescribing.htm
21 Dec 2022
Nearly all patients received prescription opioids after an overdose, study finds
In the 90 days before an overdose, 56% of studied patients were dispensed a benzodiazepine, 59% had claims with a mental health diagnosis, and 41% had claims with a substance use disorder.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/01/13/2.htm
13 Jan 2016