Search results for "Nutrition"
Test yourself: Alcohol abuse
These cases and commentary, which address alcohol abuse, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/ty.htm
15 Dec 2010
The physician as patient
Learning the science is easy. Learning what is actually important is so much more difficult.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/self.htm
15 Dec 2010
Spreading the word about glucose control
SSM St. Mary's Health Center, a 525-bed teaching hospital in St. Louis, Mo., implements a comprehensive program to improve glucose control.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/success.htm
15 Jan 2011
ACEing geriatric care
With their special focus, Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) units have the potential to eliminate many of the issues that make hospitalization more difficult for elderly patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/coverstory.htm
15 Feb 2011
In the News
Reporting impaired colleagues, updated guidelines on spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/itn.htm
15 Feb 2011
Pulling it together
Comprehensive COPD care should include standardized diagnosis and treatment, patient education, careful discharge planning and follow-up.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/03/coverstory.htm
15 Mar 2011
A Day in the Life: The Hospital Playlist
A typical hospitalist's day if set to music would go a little something like this.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/03/free/newman.htm
15 Mar 2011
Letter from the Editor
This issue contains articles on quality COPD management, virtual patient advocates, and dabigatran versus warfarin, among others.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/03/lfe.htm
15 Mar 2011
Secondary benefit seen for early tracheotomy in cardiac patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation
Mechanically ventilated patients who had early tracheotomy or prolonged intubation after cardiac surgery didn't differ in number of ventilator-free days or infection rates, but the former required less sedation, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/03/16/4.htm
16 Mar 2011
acp-hosp1104_acp-hosp0000
To qualify, the abnormal BMI must be documented specif-ically in the medical record by the physician or by a nutrition-ist. ... For BMI <19, a diag-nosis of “underweight,” “nutritional risk” or “malnutrition” willdo, particularly if a nutrition consult is requested.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/acph-201104-coding2.pdf
30 Mar 2011