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Overdose risk doubled after patient discharge before medically advised

A Canadian study of whether discharge before medically advised was associated with drug overdose risk found that the overdose rate went up significantly after hospitalization whether the discharge was advised or not, compared to earlier no-overdose periods in the patients' lives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/09/overdose-risk-doubled-after-patient-discharge-before-medically-advised.htm
9 Oct 2024

Care transitions program may help reduce 30-day readmissions

A new study suggests a program that helps older patients transition from hospital to home or other care facilities may reduce readmissions, though editorialists disagreed on the relevance of the results.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/31/4.htm
31 Jul 2013

Could less be more in care transitions?

Interventions to improve the quality of care transitions may work better when they are less complex, say researchers who offer some ideas for future efforts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/31/could-less-be-more-in-care-transitions.htm
31 Jan 2024

Stuck in the hospital

Delayed discharges of medically stable patients are a problem that's not going away.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/18/stuck-in-the-hospital.htm
18 Sep 2024

1 in 10 older inpatients with diabetes discharged with intensified medication regimen

Nearly half of those who had their diabetes medications intensified after hospitalization had already reached outpatient blood glucose goals or had limited life expectancy, according to a recent Veterans Health Administration study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/01/5.htm
1 Apr 2020

October 9, 2024

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/09/

January 31, 2024

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/31/

Nearly half of inpatients with pneumonia or urinary tract infection were overprescribed antibiotics after discharge

The most common types of antibiotic overuse after discharge included excess duration for pneumonia and unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria, a retrospective cohort study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/23/3.htm
23 Sep 2020

September 7, 2022

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/07/

Hospitalists, primary care clinicians favor EMR communication at discharge over other methods

In a survey of clinicians at a safety-net hospital system, direct messages sent via a shared electronic medical record (EMR) were preferred to phone, email, fax, and text messaging.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/5.htm
15 Apr 2020

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