Search results for "Rapid Response"
Face-to-face handoffs didn't reduce adverse events
Patients whose hospitalists handed them off to another clinician in a face-to-face meeting had similar rates of adverse events and length of stay as those who didn't get face-to-face handoffs, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/11/1.htm
11 Mar 2015
Top Docs
Meet our 2014 Top Hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/topdocs.htm
15 Nov 2014
Recent Research
Medication safety assessment, international gout guidelines, statins and intracerebral hemorrhage, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/05/rr.htm
15 May 2014
Think outside the ICU, physician leader urges
Sick ICU patients outnumber the people allocated to care for them, notes J. Christopher Farmer, MD, FACP.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/critcare3.htm
15 Mar 2014
Internationally developed gout guidelines seek to improve clinical practice
Ten recommendations for the diagnosis and management of patients with gout have been developed by a multinational group with the aim of improving daily clinical practice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/01/15/5.htm
15 Jan 2014
Top Docs
Our call for nominations last spring yielded an impressive number of nominees, from which our editorial board selected the ten featured here. These physicians have done admirable work in patient rounding, resident education, technology, workload balance, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/coverstory.htm
15 Nov 2013
The power of respect
Thoughts for interns and residents.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/09/blog.htm
15 Sep 2013
CME credits available in patient safety supplement
A supplement to the March 5 Annals of Internal Medicine, which offers 11 CME credits, focuses on a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–funded project, “Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices.”
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/03/06/6.htm
6 Mar 2013
Be your own rapid response
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center developed rapid response teams composed of patients' main clinicians and tested the outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/12/success.htm
15 Dec 2012
Letter from the Editor
This issue features stories on resuscitation, rapid response teams, and leading a hospitalist program, among others.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/12/lfe.htm
15 Dec 2012