Search results for "Discharge planning"
Checklists, continuous glucose monitoring, deferred care, and discharge lounges
The February issue of ACP Hospitalist is online and in the mail. Articles look at implementation of checklists, continuous glucose monitoring, and discharge lounges in hospital medicine, as well as where all those admissions for non-COVID-19 conditions have gone during the pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/10/5.htm
10 Feb 2021
More than a third of residents unsure who's responsible for patient education at discharge
In a multi-institutional survey of internal medicine residents, 35% were not sure who was primarily responsible for patient education at discharge, with the next most common responses being the intern, the resident, the nurse, and the attending.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/10/3.htm
10 Feb 2021
MKSAP quiz on discharge planning
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on discharge planning.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/mksap-quiz-on-discharge-planning.htm
15 Feb 2021
Do you need a checklist?
There's limited evidence but apparent potential for these tools in hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/do-you-need-a-checklist.htm
15 Feb 2021
Checklists, deferred care, and more
This month's issue looks at how checklists are best applied and where admissions for causes other than COVID-19 might have gone, as well as discharge lounges and continuous glucose monitoring.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Feb 2021
The impact of deferred hospital care during COVID-19
Experts are looking at where the patients went and what happens next.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/the-impact-of-deferred-hospital-care-during-covid-19.htm
15 Feb 2021
Virtual rounding beyond the pandemic
Hospitals have moved to hybrids of remote and in-person rounds.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/virtual-rounding-beyond-the-pandemic.htm
15 Sep 2021
Part-time hospitalists tied to patient mortality?
Two experts offer their thoughts on the implications of a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/qa-part-time-hospitalists-tied-to-patient-mortality.htm
15 Nov 2021
Tactics for managing surge capacity evaluated in survey of academic hospital leaders
The most valued strategies included appropriate staffing, proactive data-driven approaches, and discharge planning at the time of admission, yet hospitalist and hospital leaders reported that low-cost solutions like discharge lounges and huddles were usually implemented first.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/12/22/2.htm
22 Dec 2021
Isolation intensifies ICU impacts
The senior author of a recent study discusses the potential link between social isolation and increased disability and mortality after hospitalization for a critical illness, and what this might mean in the era of COVID-19.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/30/free/isolation-intensifies-icu-impacts.htm
30 Mar 2022