Search results for "Procedures"
Medicare takes aim at hospital-acquired conditions
Medicare's recent announcement that it will stop paying for some hospital-acquired conditions has hospitals ramping up their quality improvement efforts, and some experts predict that hospitalists are likely to find themselves center stage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/cover-story.htm
15 Nov 2007
MKSAP primer: Heart failure
Initial diagnostic testing of the patient with heart failure includes obtaining an electrocardiogram, a chest radiograph, and an echocardiogram, as well as blood chemistry evaluation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/mksap.htm
15 Nov 2007
Journal watch
Recent studies about S. aureus infection, hospitalist care reducing lengths of stay, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/journal.htm
15 Nov 2007
The new field of NOTES
Experts debate the pros and cons of natural orifice surgery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/notes.htm
15 Dec 2007
Test yourself: Gastrointestinal bleeding
A 52-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after vomiting several cups of maroon-colored blood... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/test.htm
15 Dec 2007
New Joint Commission president envisions global quality improvements
New Joint Commission president envisions global quality improvements.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/chassin.htm
15 Jan 2008
Journal watch
Recent studies about acute MI reperfusion times, cardiac resynchronization therapy, and and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/journal.htm
15 Jan 2008
MKSAP primer: COPD
MKSAP primer: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/copd.htm
15 Jan 2008
Expert analysis: woman with recent stroke and a patent foramen ovale
Expert analysis: Woman with recent stroke and a patent foramen ovale.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/expert.htm
15 Feb 2008
In the News
ACC/AHA Task Force updates STEMI and PCI guidelines .
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/itn.htm
15 Feb 2008