Search results for "Palliative care"
Cases from the University of California, San Francisco, and Hôpital St. Thérèse, Haiti
Real patient cases cover such topics as complicated heart failure in a resource-poor setting and palliative care in rural Haiti.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/05/the-brief-case.htm
15 May 2014
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
Practicing cost-effective medicine
One clinician's top 10 tips.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/tips.htm
15 Sep 2007
Building trust aids decision making in end-of-life care
The patient is dying. More medical intervention is futile. But the family, speaking for their loved one, still wants everything done.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/decision-making.htm
15 Aug 2007
CDC proposes 12 draft recommendations for prescribing opioids
The agency is accepting public comment until Jan. 13.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/12/23/4.htm
23 Dec 2015
Discussing prognosis
Physicians not only overestimate prognosis, many consciously present a more optimistic prognosis to patients than they privately believe.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/prognosis.htm
15 May 2011
Integrating palliative care into the ICU
Palliative care, rapid response teams, and sepsis were a few of the topics covered at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 22nd annual National Forum.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/03/ihi.htm
15 Mar 2011
Antipsychotics not effective for prevention, treatment of inpatient delirium
Two reviews analyzed dozens of studies on the use of haloperidol, second-generation antipsychotics, or placebo to treat or prevent delirium in hospitalized patients and found little to no evidence of benefit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/11/1.htm
11 Sep 2019
A doctor seeks ways to encourage earlier palliative care talks
Cross-discipline initiatives are key.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/03/palliative.htm
15 Mar 2015
Study identifies potential predictors of hospital-onset C. difficile infection
In patients colonized with Clostridioides difficile, risk factors for infection included longer length of stay, exposure to multiple classes of antibiotics, use of opioids, and cirrhosis, whereas use of laxatives was associated with a lower risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/17/1.htm
17 Jul 2019