Search results for "Access to Care"
Recognize, respond to restrictive eating disorders
Hiding food, exercising discreetly, and manipulating feeding tubes are just a few behaviors hospitalists may have to address.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/recognize-respond-to-restrictive-eating-disorders.htm
20 Mar 2024
Internship's depression-inducing effects improved from 2007 to 2019
Medical interns reported increases in sleep hours, quality of faculty feedback, and use of mental health services, as well as a decrease in work hours, all of which might be mitigating internship's adverse effects on mental health.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/17/1.htm
17 Nov 2021
ACP, other groups focus on effects of the pandemic
Recent papers addressed how to treat strokes and addiction during a pandemic, and ACP issued statements supporting physicians who bring their own personal protective equipment or speak out about unsafe conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/2.htm
8 Apr 2020
Preop meds, resuscitation champions, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/in-the-news.htm
15 Jun 2021
Risk for death appears higher in STEMI patients without standard modifiable risk factors
Patients, especially women, who presented with ST-segment elevation (STEMI) and did not smoke or have hypertension, diabetes, or hypercholesterolemia had a significantly higher all-cause mortality rate than those with a risk factor in a retrospective Swedish study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/4.htm
17 Mar 2021
Fragmentation breeds frequency in COPD care
An expert discusses how the locations patients receive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care are tied to their risk of hospitalization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/03/fragmentation-breeds-frequency-in-copd-care.htm
3 Aug 2022
Admit to where?
Heart failure care can be improved by reducing variation between medicine and cardiology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/admit-to-where.htm
15 Apr 2021
Massachusetts health care reform associated with improved health outcomes
Health care reform in Massachusetts, which has been considered a model for the Affordable Care Act, was associated with reduced all-cause mortality and deaths from causes potentially affected by access to health care, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/05/07/5.htm
7 May 2014
March 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/03/
Getting dialysis for undocumented patients
Limited coverage worsens outcomes for patients and increases costs for the system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/getting-dialysis-for-undocumented-patients.htm
15 Jan 2021