Search results for "Correction"
MKSAP quiz on ascites
These cases and commentary, which focus on ascites, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/02/ty.htm
15 Feb 2014
Take a balanced approach to sodium imbalances
Tips for treating patients on both ends of the sodium spectrum, from hyponatremia to hypernatremia.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/12/conf02.htm
15 Dec 2013
Is it observation or inpatient?
The question of “observation or inpatient” has perplexed hospital physicians for some time, but it's recently acquired greater financial significance. Recovery audit contractors paid by Medicare will be looking at hospitals' one-day admissions to determine whether patients were appropriately admitted or should have been under observation status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/observation.htm
15 Nov 2009
Hospitalist issues take hold at Board of Governors meeting
From boosting recruitment to managing infections, hospitalist issues were well represented during the Board of Governors' April business meeting at Internal Medicine 2007 in San Diego.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/gov-meeting.htm
15 Jun 2007
Avoid common mistakes when treating hyponatremia
Acute hyponatremia merits rapid correction to prevent brain herniation, but overtreatment of hyponatremia can lead to osmotic demyelination syndrome.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/avoid-common-mistakes-when-treating-hyponatremia.htm
15 Feb 2018
Noninvasive cardiac output monitoring
Our columnist describes the strengths and weaknesses of currently available minimally invasive monitors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/04/tech.htm
15 Apr 2010
Cases from John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Cutaneous tuberculosis, spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/brief-case-from-john-h-stroger-jr-hospital-of-cook-county.htm
15 Jan 2019
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Hospitalists' cost-effectiveness, vasopressin antagonists and hyponatremia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/jw.htm
15 Feb 2011
Don't look now, but you are surrounded
It is somewhat unsettling to consider that we are outnumbered by microbes in our own skin by a factor of about ten cells to one.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/genomics.htm
15 Aug 2011
In the News
Comparing clinical decision rules for PE, U.K. guidelines on preventing delirium, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/itn.htm
15 Nov 2011