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What's new on ACP Internist's blog
The hits keep coming on ACP Internist’s blog, launched last May. Daily updates provide readers with the latest news relevant to internal and hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/blog.htm
15 Jan 2009
Where's the target?
The NICE-SUGAR investigators’ finding that intensive control actually increased mortality among their more than 6,000 ICU patients will lead to a dramatic and rapid change in practice for hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/06/glucose.htm
15 Jun 2009
Letter from the Editor
With health care reform in the news, bundled payments have been getting a lot of attention. Under this plan, payers would pay a lump sum per hospital admission that hospitals and physicians would share, in contrast to the current system based on separate billing for relative value units. Bundled payments offer possible advantages, but there are possible pitfalls, too.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/lfe.htm
15 Dec 2009
Treating HCAP is not a snap
Pop quiz: Do you know the guidelines for treating health care-associated pneumonia? And is your clinical practice in accordance with those guidelines? If the answer to either of those questions is no, you're not alone.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/hcap.htm
15 Mar 2010
Major recall of Tylenol and other McNeil products; concerns about BPA in infants, kids
Drug recalls, warnings, approvals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/fda.htm
15 Mar 2010
Pulling it together
Comprehensive COPD care should include standardized diagnosis and treatment, patient education, careful discharge planning and follow-up.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/03/coverstory.htm
15 Mar 2011
Letter from the Editor
This issue examines the “July effect,” readmission prevention, blood glucose management, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/lfe.htm
15 Apr 2011
Recent Research
Restrictive transfusions, hospice care use, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/rr.htm
15 May 2011
Recent Research
Gait speed and cardiac surgery outcomes, bloodstream infection surveillance, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/research.htm
15 Jun 2011
Testing the tests
An expert gives advice on which tests may be most helpful in diagnosing intensive care patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/testing.htm
15 Jun 2011