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A handful of programs around the country provide hospital-level care to patients without admitting them to the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/05/hosphome.htm
15 May 2013
Tiered system set criteria for calling rapid-response or treating teams
A 2-tier system for activating a rapid-response team was associated with changes in the triggers leading to ICU admission and decreased ICU mortality among these patients in an Australian hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/25/3.htm
25 Mar 2015
Pulmonary hypertension: A clinical review
A clinical review of the condition.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/04/pulmonary-hypertension.htm
15 Apr 2015
Recent Research
ICU glycemic control adoption, beta-blockers at discharge, cognitive function after cardiac arrest, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/06/recent-research.htm
15 Jun 2015
For moderately ill pneumonia patients, mortality was lower in the ICU than on the ward
Researchers found that 36% of pneumonia patients living near hospitals with high ICU utilization rates were sent to the ICU, compared with 23% of patients living farther away.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/09/30/2.htm
30 Sep 2015
Recent Research
Delirium screening, rapid response, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/recent-research.htm
15 Dec 2015
End of life in the ICU
Outcomes, whether life or death, should better reflect goals and values of patients, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/end-of-life-ICU.htm
15 Jan 2016
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue features a look at end-of-life care in the ICU, as well as subconscious bias, rapid testing for infectious disease, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/lfe.htm
15 Jan 2016
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue discusses implantation of endovascular therapy in stroke, reversal agents for the direct oral anticoagulants, antibiotics at the end of life, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/lfe.htm
15 Feb 2016
Diagnoses of Medicare ICU patients have shifted
Cardiovascular disease remains the top disease category of primary diagnoses, but it declined yearly from 1996 to 2010, while infection-related diagnoses, especially sepsis, rose.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/23/2.htm
23 Mar 2016