Search results for "Palliative care"
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes articles on catheter-associated urinary infections, recreational marijuana, disorders of consciousness, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/05/lfe.htm
15 May 2015
A strategy for long stays
Patients with extended hospitalizations got continuity and targeted help under a new program.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/29/a-strategy-for-long-stays.htm
29 Nov 2023
February issue online and in the mail
This issue looks at collaboration between hospitals, with a main story about improving transfers and an inside feature about providing palliative care at rural facilities.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/02/12/5.htm
12 Feb 2020
Opioid management, constipation key challenges in cancer pain
Adding methadone to opioids can help with intractable pain.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/conference01.htm
15 Oct 2013
In the News
Proxies' perceptions about dementia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2010
The House of God revisited
Jamie S. Newman, FACP, offers a hospitalist’s perspective on a classic book.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/book.htm
15 Oct 2008
Journal Watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about ventilator allocation in disasters, MRSA screening, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/journal.htm
15 May 2008
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
A look at admission and discharge in 1780.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/11/newman-the-royal-infirmary-of-edinburgh.htm
15 Nov 2017
A card and a couple of minutes convey condolences
A study finds that clinicians express condolences to patients' families at inconsistent rates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/condolences.htm
15 Apr 2015
Tool helps predict one-year death risk at admission
Researchers have validated a prognostic tool which can be used at admission to estimate a patient's risk of dying within a year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/11/20/2.htm
20 Nov 2013