Search results for "geriatrician"
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
Commonly used delirium assessment tool may lack sensitivity in daily practice
The Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU (CAM-ICU), a commonly used tool to assess delirium, may lack sensitivity in daily practice as compared to clinical trials, a new study suggests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/10/4.htm
10 Aug 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
Inpatient continuity of care declined in decade ending in 2006
Inpatients experienced a decline in continuity of care between 1996 and 2006, but the hospitalist model doesn't seem to be to blame, the authors of a new analysis concluded.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/10/19/1.htm
19 Oct 2011
Clearing or clouding the mind?
Antipsychotics can resolve agitation in patients with delirium, but that may not provide much overall benefit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/delirium.htm
15 Nov 2011
Recent Research
Hospitalist care and post-discharge costs, very elderly patients and vitamin K thromboprophylaxis, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/01/rr.htm
15 Jan 2012
Advance directives are the beginning, not the end
Despite the best planning, patients may change their minds at the end of life once they recognize their unique situations and their sometimes surprising decisions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/07/graymatters.htm
15 Jul 2012
Hospital medicine matures
Post-acute care is emerging as a dedicated field of practice on a path similar to hospital medicine's a decade or so ago.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/coverstory.htm
15 Oct 2012
Finesse required to treat anxiety in the elderly
Elderly patients may have many concerns on their mind, but when does worry become anxiety?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/anxiety.htm
15 Feb 2013
Post-hospital syndrome
With no definitive method in place to keep patients from returning to the hospital, perhaps it's time to look at the problem in a new way.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/coverstory.htm
15 Mar 2013