Search results for "Quality Improvement"
Effort to increase prescribing of NSAIDs showed no effect in trial
Researchers discontinued a hard stop alert that had been added to the admission order set when they found that it didn't increase hospitalists' use of NSAIDs for multimodal pain management.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/05/effort-to-increase-prescribing-of-nsaids-showed-no-effect-in-trial.htm
5 Jul 2023
Listening to patients who can't hear
Pick up tips to treat deaf and hard-of-hearing patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/listening-to-patients-who-cant-hear.htm
15 Apr 2019
More diuretics and more tips on heart failure
Optimize prescribing during and after heart failure hospitalization to improve care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/more-diuretics-and-more-tips-on-heart-failure.htm
15 Dec 2020
Hospital-acquired condition penalty program did not reduce conditions it targeted
Findings in one state raise questions about whether national value-based payment programs are effective in reducing hospital-acquired conditions and whether penalties under the program should be continued, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/13/2.htm
13 Nov 2019
July issue online and in the mail
This month's issue of ACP Hospitalist provides news from Internal Medicine Meeting 2018, including articles about M&M conferences, quality improvement, medication reconciliation, orthopedic comanagement, and delirium.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/11/5.htm
11 Jul 2018
Faster antibiotics, full sepsis bundle associated with lower inpatient mortality
Overall, 82.5% of patients in the New York State registry got the recommended bundle, which included blood cultures, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and lactate measurement, within three hours.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/24/2.htm
24 May 2017
Long-acting COPD meds often discontinued during hospital stay and not restarted
A retrospective Canadian study looked at unintentional discontinuation of long-acting muscarinic antagonists and long-acting beta-agonist and inhaled corticosteroid combination therapy in older, highly adherent adults admitted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/07/3.htm
7 Oct 2020
Frailty associated with failure to rescue after surgery, study finds
The results suggest that the risk-benefit ratio of even minor elective procedures needs to be carefully considered in individuals who are considered frail, the study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/28/3.htm
28 Mar 2018
Heart failure hospitalization increased prescribing of guideline-directed therapy
At admission, only 14.9% of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction were on all indicated medications, and that rate increased to 32.8% at discharge, according to a new analysis of the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Registry.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/heart-failure-hospitalization-increased-prescribing-of-guideline-directed-therapy.htm
21 Jun 2023
Top Docs
Meet our 2010 Top Hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/11/top.htm
15 Nov 2010