Search results for "Risk scores"
COVID-19 studies offer risk scores, experts issue guidance on vaccine prioritization
One study found that albumin was key to identifying COVID-19 patients safe to discharge, while another suggested CT findings could be helpful in diagnosis and triage. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and ACP considered who should be vaccinated first, and the CDC revised quarantine advice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/09/1.htm
9 Dec 2020
Weighing perioperative cardiac risk scores
Experts explain and compare the available tools, detailing which scores they prefer.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/weighing-perioperative-cardiac-risk-scores.htm
15 Mar 2021
June 8, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/08/
March 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/
Surviving Sepsis Campaign releases updated guidelines for hospitalized adults
Topics covered among the 93 recommendations include screening and early treatment of sepsis, hemodynamic management, ventilation, additional therapies, and long-term outcomes and goals of care. Changes include which sepsis risk scores are recommended.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/10/20/2.htm
20 Oct 2021
Two risk scores most accurately predict outcomes after lower GI bleeding
The Oakland score performed best for predicting safe discharge, major bleeding, and transfusion, while the Strate score performed best for hemostasis, according to a recent review and meta-analysis that assessed four scores.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/08/two-risk-scores-most-accurately-predict-outcomes-after-lower-gi-bleeding.htm
8 Jun 2022
New frailty risk score for hospitals developed using ICD-10 codes
The score has low discriminative ability at the individual level but provides hospital-level data about the prevalence of frailty among inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/09/3.htm
9 May 2018
New international guideline updates recommendations on managing patients with nonvariceal GI bleeding
The new guideline is “a step forward,” particularly with regard to new endoscopic therapies and management of upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in patients on antiplatelet or anticoagulant drugs, an editorial noted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/23/1.htm
23 Oct 2019
April 26, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/26/
Machine learning model predicts sepsis in ICU patients up to 12 hours before diagnosis
The next step for the tool will be to have its clinical utility analyzed in a prospective study, with the goal of having patients treated with IV antibiotics, fluids, and other adjunct therapies according to a reliable estimate of how likely they are to develop sepsis in the near future, the authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/10/4.htm
10 Jan 2018