Search results for "Nutrition"
November 2012
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/11/
MKSAP quiz on nutrition
Patient cases involving burns, nutrition, diarrhea after small-bowel resection, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/02/MKSAP-nutrition.htm
15 Feb 2015
Test yourself: Nutrition
The following cases and commentary, which address nutrition, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/ty.htm
15 Aug 2009
Nutritional support didn't reduce mortality in inpatients with high C-reactive protein levels
A secondary analysis of a trial that randomized patients at risk of malnutrition to protocol-guided individualized nutritional support or standard hospital food found benefits only in patients with low to moderate levels of inflammation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/03/18/3.htm
18 Mar 2020
Pacemakers, stents recalled
Recalls, warnings, alerts, and approvals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/fda-update.htm
15 Jul 2021
Obesity and malnutrition are not mutually exclusive
Evidence suggests malnutrition counteracts ‘obesity paradox’.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/02/nutrition.htm
15 Feb 2015
Malnutrition common among patients with ACS, linked to worse outcomes
A retrospective study of Spanish patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) found that while worse malnutrition scores were most strongly related to a lower body mass index, moderate or severe malnourishment was seen in between 8.4% and 36.7% of overweight and obese patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/08/12/4.htm
12 Aug 2020
Moving on from readmissions
Some experts are saying it's time for hospitals and payers to shift their focus from preventing readmissions to pursuing other quality objectives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/26/moving-on-from-readmissions.htm
26 Oct 2022
October issue online and in the mail
This issue covers pregnant patients, healthy hospital food, and religious accommodations, among other hot topics. A Twitter chat on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. Eastern will focus on this month's Q&A about medical social media.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/09/5.htm
9 Oct 2019
Academic hospitals' discharge practices for patients with COVID-19 compared
Most U.S. hospitals provided patients with similar guidance on isolation, but their criteria for discharge varied, leading the study authors to call for more research in this area. An Italian study found high incidence of hospital-acquired infections among COVID-19 patients in ICUs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/21/2.htm
21 Apr 2021