Search results for "Therapeutics"
IDSA guidelines, experts address hydroxychloroquine, other potential COVID-19 therapies
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) made recommendations on using drugs to treat COVID-19, while cardiac groups warned about risks of arrhythmias with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/1.htm
15 Apr 2020
Primum non nocere
Two hospitalists muse on the current pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/primum-non-nocere.htm
15 Sep 2020
Recent Research
Genotype testing for warfarin dosing may offer limited or no benefit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/06/rr.htm
15 Jun 2014
Bleeding risks assessed for patients on warfarin before MI
Many patients who are on home warfarin do not receive guideline-recommended treatment when they have a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/15/4.htm
15 Feb 2012
It's not an admission, it's an experience
When former hospitalist M. Bridget Duffy, MD, became chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic last year, she explored every aspect of the hospital’s operation and set out to improve it. The changes instituted by her office of patient experience are making the Cleveland Clinic look and feel more like part of a very customer-service-oriented industry. That's no coincidence, say experts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/cover.htm
15 Feb 2008
Latest COVID-19 research focuses on test accuracy, experimental therapies
Recent articles offered differing estimates of the risk of false negatives in testing for SARS-CoV-2, and studies reported the effectiveness of shared ventilators and a cancer drug for patients with severe COVID-19. The FDA revoked its authorization for hydroxychloroquine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/17/1.htm
17 Jun 2020
Common outpatient meds, interferon beta show positive results for COVID-19
A retrospective study found lower mortality rates in COVID-19 patients who were taking drugs including statins, metformin, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, while a trial found faster recovery in patients who received interferon beta in addition to remdesivir.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/06/free/common-outpatient-meds-interferon-beta-show-positive-results-for-covid-19.htm
6 Jul 2022
Melding intuition with deliberation to sidestep diagnostic traps
Would you pass “the eyeball test” if the patient in this case study presented in your hospital's emergency department? Find out how one physician pressed for a better answer on a patient who presented with cardiac pain but no evidence of a heart attack.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/mindful.htm
15 Mar 2009
Cases from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A group of cases involving lytic lesions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/09/free/a-group-of-cases-involving-lytic-lesions.htm
9 Aug 2023
Latest COVID-19 research looks at predictive biomarkers, timing of testing, health care worker infections
Lactate dehydrogenase and other biomarkers appear to predict risk of critical illness and death, and testing soon after exposure is associated with high rates of false negatives, new studies showed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/05/20/2.htm
20 May 2020