Search results for "Palliative care"
In the News
Proxies' perceptions about dementia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2010
In the News
HCAP guidelines, PCI and STEMI, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/05/itn.htm
15 May 2010
The next issue of ACP Internist is online
And the winner is…
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/06/09/7.htm
9 Jun 2010
Better endings are possible
Patients need ideal medical care at the end of life, but they don't always get it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/06/palliative.htm
15 Jun 2010
Early palliative care improves quality of life in patients with metastatic lung cancer
AHRQ releases data on preventable heart failure hospitalizations
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/08/25/3.htm
25 Aug 2010
Survival benefit seen with combination antibiotics in patients with high death risk
Early palliative care improves quality of life in patients with metastatic lung cancer
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/08/25/2.htm
25 Aug 2010
Assisted suicide
The prescribing of lethal medication remains highly controversial as clinicians struggle to balance the autonomy of terminally ill patients and the commitment to do no harm.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/suicide.htm
15 Sep 2010
Hospice deaths easier on cancer patients, caregivers than ICU deaths
Send us your coding questions
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/22/4.htm
22 Sep 2010
Constipation in mechanically ventilated patients associated with death, infection
Hyperglycemia predicts surgical site infections
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/29/3.htm
29 Sep 2010
Arsenic and Olds Lake
Could this patient have arsenic poisoning?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/free/newman.htm
15 Oct 2010