Search results for "Quality Improvement"
Survey details significant rise in intensivists working in U.S. ICUs
More than 90% of all U.S. ICUs have intensivists available, according to a survey that measured prepandemic ICU staffing. In comparison, research from 1997 shows less than 40% of ICU patients received care from an intensivist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/29/survey-details-significant-rise-in-intensivists-working-in-us-icus.htm
29 May 2024
Wide variation in sepsis outcomes by site of infection, type of organ dysfunction
One-fifth of inpatients diagnosed with sepsis met organ dysfunction criteria solely because of a decline in their systolic blood pressure, one of several findings leading the authors of a new study to propose reconsideration of the definition of sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/29/wide-variation-in-sepsis-outcomes-by-site-of-infection-type-of-organ-dysfunction.htm
29 May 2024
New recommendations cover preop management of endocrine, hormonal, urologic medications
The guidance from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement focused on long-term medications and prioritized avoiding interruption of therapy unless continuation poses risks.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/2.htm
17 Mar 2021
Med rec for hospitalists and hospitals
An expert explains how to do a good medication reconciliation for a single patient, and how to improve them throughout a whole system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/med-rec-for-hospitalists-and-hospitals.htm
15 May 2024
Training in time-limited trials associated with less use of nonbeneficial ICU treatments
In a pre- and postintervention quality improvement study, physicians at three academic hospitals in California were trained to use time-limited trials of interventions in communication and care planning with families and surrogate decision makers of critically ill ICU patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/21/4.htm
21 Apr 2021
November 30, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/30/
Education, feedback for clinicians did not affect inpatient or postdischarge heart failure outcomes
An intervention targeting hospital clinicians had no significant effect on time to first heart failure rehospitalization or death or quality-of-care scores among patients discharged after hospitalization for acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, a recent trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/04/3.htm
4 Aug 2021
Factors identified to predict risk of type 2 MI in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
Patients who were on antihyperglycemic or anticoagulant medications before admission were less likely to be among the 2.2% of patients who had a type 2 non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) while hospitalized with COVID-19, a retrospective study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/22/free/factors-identified-to-predict-risk-of-type-2-mi-in-patients-hospitalized-with-covid-19.htm
22 May 2024
July 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/
Displaying patient photographs in EHR reduced rate of wrong-patient order entry errors
As part of a quality improvement project at one Boston hospital, ED staff encouraged patients to have their photographs taken by informing them that the project was intended to improve safety.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/18/5.htm
18 Nov 2020