Search results for "Trends"
Invasive mechanical ventilation at end of life may be more common in Asian Americans
Researchers used a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to compare receipt of invasive mechanical ventilation among Asian American and White patients hospitalized in the last 30 days of life.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/05/4.htm
5 May 2021
Review offers four recommendations to improve hospitalists' procedural competency
While no convincing data suggested that bedside procedures performed by procedural specialists have better outcomes than those done by well-trained hospitalists, increased referrals and a lack of standardized training or assessment have led to decreasing procedural competency, a literature review found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/24/2.htm
24 Mar 2021
New COVID-19 treatment, monitoring, isolation guidance
The Infectious Diseases Society of America newly suggested tocilizumab for some patients, while the CDC offered guidance on isolation duration for immunocompromised patients and pulse oximetry accuracy and published safety data on the currently available vaccines. Recent studies looked at vitamin D and anticoagulation in COVID-19.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/24/2.htm
24 Feb 2021
Do you need a checklist?
There's limited evidence but apparent potential for these tools in hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/do-you-need-a-checklist.htm
15 Feb 2021
Continuous glucose monitoring gains traction in hospitals
Diabetes tech is moving rapidly from research to practice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/continuous-glucose-monitoring-gains-traction-in-hospitals.htm
15 Feb 2021
Checklists, deferred care, and more
This month's issue looks at how checklists are best applied and where admissions for causes other than COVID-19 might have gone, as well as discharge lounges and continuous glucose monitoring.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Feb 2021
New data on tocilizumab, convalescent plasma, anticoagulation for COVID-19
Recent studies found that tocilizumab was potentially harmful for ICU patients, indicated that convalescent plasma works better with higher antibody titers delivered earlier, and offered conflicting findings on anticoagulation. Other research compared mortality from COVID-19 over time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/01/27/1.htm
27 Jan 2021
Tailor treatment for asymptomatic inpatient hypertension
An expert warns hospitalists against overprescribing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/tailor-treatment-for-asymptomatic-inpatient-hypertension.htm
15 Jan 2021
Men with heart failure more likely to be admitted, get intensive treatment at end of life
Researchers couldn't determine whether women with heart failure were less likely to be hospitalized or to receive intensive or invasive care due to undertreatment of women or overtreatment of men at the end of life.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/23/4.htm
23 Dec 2020
Sepsis, cardiac arrest, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/in-the-news.htm
15 Dec 2020