Search results for "Perspectives"
Manage meds to treat GI bleeding before, after endoscopy
Care of inpatients with GI bleeding is complicated and multidisciplinary, but hospitalists can contribute by starting and stopping the right drugs, according to a speaker at Internal Medicine Meeting 2022.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/18/free/manage-meds-to-treat-gi-bleeding-before-after-endoscopy.htm
18 May 2022
Why to watch your language
Two attendings take aim at jargon, neologisms, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/qa-why-to-watch-your-language.htm
15 Mar 2021
What's in an eponym? Discussing namesake diseases
Debate on the value of eponyms has been ongoing for decades.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/05/whats-in-an-eponym-discussing-namesake-diseases.htm
15 May 2021
Lessons learned from a doctor's death
Lucy Kalanithi, MD, FACP, spoke about the death of her husband, a neurosurgeon who contracted stage 4 lung cancer and wrote a best-selling memoir.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/05/4.htm
5 Apr 2017
When physicians and patients disagree
Preserve patient autonomy in difficult situations, including requests for futile care and AMA discharges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/when-physicians-and-patients-disagree.htm
15 May 2019
Seeing readmissions from the patient's point of view
Researchers begin to investigate patient-reported outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/patient-readmissions.htm
15 Sep 2015
Discover and defeat your diagnostic errors
Experts explain the causes and solutions for common mistakes in diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/diagnostic-errors.htm
15 Jul 2017
Resisting ransomware
Health care searches for solutions as hackers target hospital data.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/ransomware-hospitals.htm
15 Oct 2016
Changes afoot at physician-owned specialty hospitals
When Oklahoma Heart Hospital opened in August 2002 in Oklahoma City, it didn't take long for nearby community hospital Baptist Medical Center to realize it needed to make some changes to offset the loss of patients. But new government and state regulations will mean changes in the specialty hospital workplace in the coming months and years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/cover-story.htm
15 Aug 2007
Our April issue is available
The April issue of ACP Hospitalist has a cover story about perfecting post-acute care and inside features on evidence-based practice centers, stress hyperglycemia, and new guidelines for status epilepticus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/20/5.htm
20 Apr 2016