Search results for "Risk Assessment"
Training in breathing exercises before upper abdominal surgery reduced postoperative pulmonary complications
Within six weeks before surgery, patients had a 30-minute training session with a physiotherapist, which involved coaching in the breathing exercises, education about pulmonary complications, and an individualized risk assessment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/31/3.htm
31 Jan 2018
In the News
Delayed ICU transfer, updated quality and performance measures for afib, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/in-the-news.htm
15 Oct 2016
SHM selected new Choosing Wisely recommendations with patient input
The latest advice from the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) on avoiding low-value care includes recommendations against waking patients at night for routine care and against routinely prescribing venous thromboembolism prophylaxis to all inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/free/shm-selected-new-choosing-wisely-recommendations-with-patient-input.htm
15 Jun 2022
ED physicians and hospitalists differ on potential preventability of admissions
Physicians interviewed for the study attributed the difference between the specialties' evaluations on which admissions were potentially preventable to differences in clinician training, risk assessment, and clinician understanding of outpatient access.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/24/4.htm
24 Jan 2018
Hyponatremia at admission predicts mortality, study finds
The investigators found a dose-response relationship, with patients having severe hyponatremia (serum sodium level <125 mEq/L) having even higher mortality risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/30/2.htm
30 Mar 2016
Decision aid for low-risk chest pain
A trial at six EDs in the U.S. compared usual care or a structured risk assessment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/in-the-news.htm
15 Mar 2017
Opioid management, constipation key challenges in cancer pain
Adding methadone to opioids can help with intractable pain.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/conference01.htm
15 Oct 2013
Upper gastrointestinal bleed
This edition of Morning Report focuses on a fictional patient with an upper gastrointestinal bleed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/morning-report-gi-bleed.htm
15 Jun 2017
GRACE score underestimates in-hospital mortality in female ACS patients, study finds
The authors of a new study developed and validated the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) 3.0 score to account for sex-based differences in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and better identify women needing early invasive treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/07/grace-score-underestimates-in-hospital-mortality-in-female-acs-patients.htm
7 Sep 2022
COPD meds, endocarditis, and more
Recent research from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/recent-research.htm
15 Apr 2021