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This month's issue focuses on reducing heart failure readmissions, improving ICU care, and combating sexual harassment in medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 May 2018
Hospitalists work to find their way in the ICU
The majority of hospitalists report that they treat ICU patients, and many feel insufficiently trained and supported.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/hospitalists-find-their-way-in-the-icu.htm
15 May 2018
May issue online and in the mail
This month's issue of ACP Hospitalist focuses on reducing heart failure readmissions, improving ICU care, and combating sexual harassment in medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/16/5.htm
16 May 2018
H2 blockers prevented clinically important GI bleeding better than PPIs in ICU patients
The retrospective study included 70,093 ICU patients who had at least one risk factor for stress ulcers and therefore had received a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) or histamine H2-receptor antagonist (H2 blocker) for three or more days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/06/2.htm
6 Jun 2018
ICU training should come standard
A reader responds to a story on ICU care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/letters-to-the-editor.htm
15 Jul 2018
Postoperative function, hip fracture, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/recent-research.htm
15 Oct 2018
Estimates of ICU benefit differ among critical care physicians
Decisions about ICU care may be tied to bed availability, family presence, and patient age, one study found, while another revealed wide variation among states in ICU admissions for Medicare patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/17/1.htm
17 Oct 2018
Patients with hematologic malignancy, multiorgan failure appear to benefit from ICU care
One-year survival rates were lower with organ failure than without but remained relatively high even in patients with two or more failing organ systems, the study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/24/3.htm
24 Oct 2018
The imperfection of ICU admission decisions
ICU clinicians and experts continue to hunt for methods to make intensive care high quality and high value.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/the-imperfection-of-icu-admission-decisions.htm
15 Feb 2019
Difficult decisions
Learn about dilemmas related to feeding tubes in advanced dementia and ICU admission in this month's issue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Feb 2019