Search results for "Contrast"
Extra postdischarge COPD care review improved quality of life, not other outcomes
Personalized treatment recommendations delivered to primary care clinicians after patients' hospitalization for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation did not appear to affect rates of mortality or readmissions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/extra-postdischarge-copd-care-review-improved-quality-of-life-not-other-outcomes.htm
6 Apr 2022
Enhancing the inpatient physical exam
Hospitalists debate the pros and cons of performing routine inpatient exams every day and offer their advice for improving how physical exams are taught and practiced.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/09/enhancing-the-inpatient-physical-exam.htm
9 Mar 2022
Infected femoral closure device after cardiac catheterization
A patient presented with cellulitis at a vascular access site 10 days after undergoing cardiac catheterization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/09/free/brief-case-infected-femoral-closure-device.htm
9 Mar 2022
Guidelines not always followed in patients with CAP
A study of data from 177 U.S. hospitals found that almost all patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) received blood cultures and less than a quarter were tested for influenza.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/02/guidelines-not-always-followed-in-patients-with-cap.htm
2 Mar 2022
Diagnosing pulmonary embolism
Experts offer advice on how to apply the wide variety of available validated scores and algorithms, but also clinical judgment, to find pulmonary embolisms without excessive testing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/23/free/diagnosing-pulmonary-embolism.htm
23 Feb 2022
Dementia
Distinguishing among the causes of dementia—including Alzheimer and Parkinson disease—is a clinical and coding imperative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/09/coding-corner-dementia.htm
9 Feb 2022
Safety-net hospitals sent more patients to postacute facilities under bundled payments
A study of hospitals participating in Medicare's bundled payment program found that those with safety-net status didn't differ from others on postdischarge care cost or quality, but discharged a higher percentage of patients to institutions and a lower percentage to home health care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/24/3.htm
24 Nov 2021
Tuberculosis presenting with gastrointestinal symptoms
The patient's chief symptom was watery diarrhea for the past 10 days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/brief-case-tb-with-gi-symptoms.htm
15 Nov 2021
Nontraumatic myocardial injury
Myocardial injury is a relatively new term, necessary to know for documentation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/coding-corner-myocardial-injury.htm
15 Nov 2021
Greater SBP reduction linked to better outcomes after thrombolysis for stroke
Analyses of the ENCHANTED trial found that in the day after stroke symptom onset, every 10-mm Hg drop in systolic blood pressure (SBP) (down to as low as 110 to 120 mm Hg) was associated with a 20% decrease in the odds of unfavorable functional status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/03/3.htm
3 Nov 2021