Search results for "Heart failure"
How to identify heart failure in the hospital
About 80% of the time, a good history and physical can diagnose a patient with true heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/05/3.htm
5 Apr 2017
October 11, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/11/
July 19, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/19/
June 21, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/
Heart failure may be independent risk factor for VTE
Researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the absolute and relative risks (RRs) for venous thromboembolism after hospital admission in patients with heart failure, finding a pooled RR of 1.51 compared to other hospitalized patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/12/16/3.htm
16 Dec 2015
Acute kidney injury
Documenting acute kidney injury frequently requires assessing the trajectory of a patient's creatinine levels.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/17/acute-kidney-injury.htm
17 Jan 2024
Short and long heart failure stays associated with more readmissions than medium-length
The multicenter Canadian study also found the highest mortality rates among heart failure patients with a length of stay that exceeded eight days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/17/2.htm
17 May 2017
Updating heart failure documentation
There are important differences between the 2021 universal definition of heart failure and ICD-10-CM terminology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/27/updating-heart-failure-documentation.htm
27 Jul 2022
New risk score appears valid for predicting mortality in ED patients with acute heart failure
Use of the MEESSI-AHF score could improve patient and economic outcomes by identifying high-risk patients who can benefit from inpatient therapy and triaging low-risk patients who can be safely discharged from the ED, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/30/1.htm
30 Jan 2019
August 31, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/31/