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Integrative medicine: Coming to a hospital near you
A growing number of hospitals are incorporating complementary and alternative medicine into their treatment through the use of so-called integrative medicine, which blends conventional and nonconventional tactics rather than using one or the other exclusively. What do hospitalists need to know about these therapies?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/cover.htm
15 Apr 2008
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
Failing at heart failure treatment
Readmissions for heart failure cause financial problems for hospitals and even more pressing problems for patients. Everyone from Medicare to individual physicians is focused on methods of improvement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/08/heart.htm
15 Aug 2010
Fighting the battle against PTSD
While the military screens soldiers leaving Iraq and Afghanistan for mental health problems at least twice within six months of returning from combat, PTSD can show up several months or years after a person leaves the battlefield. Internists in community and Veterans Affairs hospitals alike must be able to spot and treat PTSD in patients, even when the disorder isn’t immediately apparent.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/09/cover.htm
15 Sep 2008
A simple plan for complex patients
Care plans guide treatment of high utilizers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/care-plans-superutilizers.htm
15 Jul 2015
Patient-centered care: Not just a catchphrase
Better rapport between physicians and patients can help the latter get well, and keep them that way.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/08/coverstory.htm
15 Aug 2012
Pay now, profit later
Initial training, whether it lasts a few days or a few weeks, can make a crucial difference in a hospitalist's long-term productivity and career satisfaction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/04/training.htm
15 Apr 2010
Here, there, but not everywhere
What do a bat with a white nose, rust-colored wheat and your pneumonia patient who winters in Arizona have in common? The answer might be fungus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/04/coverstory.htm
15 Apr 2012
The most basic therapy: food
Nutrition support experts want you to think of food as a drug. Not in the negative sense of addiction, but positively as a therapy that’s critical to helping hospitalized patients get better.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/nutrition.htm
15 Aug 2009
March 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/