Search results for "Technology"
Rural hospitals moving into the future
Technological innovations may offer solutions to the challenges facing rural hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/24/rural-hospitals-moving-into-the-future.htm
24 Jul 2024
Occult hypoxemia more common in hospitalized patients with darker skin, review finds
Occult hypoxemia, a pulse oximetry reading higher than the arterial oxygen saturation, was 67% more likely in Black patients and 39% more likely in patients identifying as Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, multiracial, or other race compared with White patients, a review found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/24/occult-hypoxemia-more-common-in-hospitalized-patients-with-darker-skin-review-finds.htm
24 Jul 2024
Intervention reduced nighttime orders for vital signs, VTE prophylaxis
Two general-medicine units applied physician education and default order changes to improve patient sleep, but additional benefits were seen on the one unit that also targeted nursing staff, the single-center study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/16/4.htm
16 Jan 2019
Bye-bye, CLABSI. Hello, HOB.
Experts explain the CDC's new quality metric, hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia (HOB), which will look more broadly at health care-associated infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/03/bye-bye-clabsi-hello-hob.htm
3 Jul 2024
Telehospitalist program reduced length of stay at a rural VHA hospital, study finds
Readmission rates did not improve with telemedicine, but patients and clinicians at both the hub and spoke hospitals were highly satisfied with a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) telehospitalist pilot program.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/24/3.htm
24 Feb 2021
July 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/
July 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/
Pandemic lessons, VTE prediction, and COVID-19 effects on other inpatients
One hospital reduced unnecessary labs during the pandemic, while another collected nine lessons to improve health care. Other recent studies looked at venous thromboembolism (VTE) in COVID-19 inpatients and mortality rates among patients hospitalized for other conditions during last year's surges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/07/28/1.htm
28 Jul 2021
June 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/
Machine learning model identified predictors of in-hospital mortality on admission
While the model was accurate in retrospective and prospective validation cohorts at multiple hospitals, it is unknown whether these predictions will improve clinical or operational outcomes, study authors noted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/02/12/3.htm
12 Feb 2020