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Talking points on palliative care

Speakers at the recent National Palliative Care Summit discussed strategies for changing and improving Americans' perceptions of palliative care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/palliative.htm
15 May 2011

No halfway measures

Partial DNRs may be attractive to patients, but they may cause more problems than they solve.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/coverstory.htm
15 Jun 2011

Recognizing, preventing and treating delirium

A large proportion of inpatients have delirium, but in most, it goes unrecognized.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/delirium.htm
15 Jun 2011

Dressed to kill

A doctor's elegant attire causes trouble in more ways than one.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/free/newman.htm
15 Jun 2011

DNR decisions by surrogates common, take longer

More than half of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders were completed by a surrogate decision maker in a recent study at one urban, public hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/27/4.htm
27 Jul 2011

Hospitalist-led ACE units show positive results

Two new trials of acute care for the elderly (ACE) services included hospitalists and found potential benefits to these alternative models of geriatric care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/17/4.htm
17 Aug 2011

Mortality with later hip fracture surgery linked to medical reasons for delay

Late hip fracture surgery carries a higher mortality risk than early surgery, but mostly because of underlying medical reasons for the delay and not the delay itself, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/17/5.htm
17 Aug 2011