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Rapid correction of hyponatremia associated with lower mortality, review finds
Hospitalized patients with severe hyponatremia who had their serum sodium level corrected by 8 to 10 mEq/L per 24 hours or faster had significantly lower inpatient mortality than those who got slower correction, according to a systematic review of 16 studies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/27/rapid-correction-of-hyponatremia-associated-with-lower-mortality-review-finds.htm
27 Nov 2024
Correction to previous issue
The Jan. 24 ACP Hospitalist Weekly should have said that the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America advises discontinuing contact precautions after obtaining between one and three negative cultures in certain drug-resistant infections, not Clostridium difficile infections, which require no follow-up cultures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/31/6.htm
31 Jan 2018
September 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/09/
Correction
An item in the Dec. 7, 2016, ACP Hospitalist Weekly required correction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/01/11/5.htm
11 Jan 2017
February 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/
November 27, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/27/
Rapid intermittent bolus therapy may be better for symptomatic severe hyponatremia
A randomized controlled trial in the Republic of Korea compared hypertonic saline delivered via rapid intermittent bolus versus slow continuous infusion among hospitalized patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/04/4.htm
4 Nov 2020
Be an antiracist hospitalist
A researcher provides insight into some of the problems faced by Black patients in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/25/be-an-antiracist-hospitalist.htm
25 Sep 2024
Point-of-care HCV test, Alzheimer's drug approved
The newly approved test detects hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA and delivers results in about an hour using a blood sample from the fingertip.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/31/point-of-care-hcv-test-alzheimers-drug-approved.htm
31 Jul 2024
Race-adjusted eGFR may negatively affect CKD care in African American patients
A cross-sectional registry study found that one-third of African American patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) would hypothetically be reclassified to a more severe stage if the race multiplier were removed from a common estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/28/5.htm
28 Oct 2020