Search results for "Palliative care"
Hospice referral often not timely in hemodialysis patients, study finds
The median length of hospice stay for Medicare patients receiving maintenance dialysis near the end of life was five days, and 41.5% received hospice services for three or fewer days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/09/1.htm
9 May 2018
American Heart Association issues scientific statement on cardiogenic shock in older adults
The statement provides suggestions for clinical practice, highlighting the crucial role of individualized risk assessment, an interdisciplinary approach, and patient-centered decision making in the management of cardiogenic shock among older adults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/american-heart-association-issues-scientific-statement-on-cardiogenic-shock-in-older-adults.htm
6 Mar 2024
Top Docs
Meet our 2010 Top Hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/11/top.htm
15 Nov 2010
Providing clinicians with prognostic data did not affect heart failure care
Readmissions and mortality were not significantly different between hospitalized heart failure patients who received care as usual and those whose records displayed an alert containing predicted risk of one-year mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/17/providing-clinicians-with-prognostic-data-did-not-affect-heart-failure-care.htm
17 Aug 2022
Man meets dog
In the hospital for a series of tests, Mary C. looks forward to a visitor, Casey. When he arrives, Mary's face lights up in anticipation of his warm greeting. But first he has to go through the required alcohol gel routine: one paw at a time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/profile.htm
15 Oct 2009
Bridging the pain gap
The main goals of pain treatment should be to reduce pain to a level that’s tolerable for the patient, decrease suffering, maximize function and minimize adverse outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/06/pain.htm
15 Jun 2009
Surgical, nonsurgical management of hip fracture compared in nursing home residents with advanced dementia
Patients who had been managed surgically had less documented pain and fewer pressure ulcers, but use of antipsychotic drugs and physical restraints did not appear to differ, and few patients in either group remained ambulatory at six months.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/16/2.htm
16 May 2018
August 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/08/
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue features a look at small hospitals and readmission measures, as well as ways to prevent acute kidney injury and to predict sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/lfe.htm
15 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