Search results for "Disparities"
Pushing back on physical restraints
Pause before ordering restraints and definitely don't forget that a patient has been placed in them, says a researcher who has found disparities in use among medical inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/26/pushing-back-on-physical-restraints.htm
26 Jul 2023
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about antipsychotic use in the elderly, heart failure hospitalizations, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/journal.htm
15 Jul 2008
November 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about treating COPD, avoiding gadolinium MRIs, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/journal-watch.htm
15 Apr 2007
Invasive mechanical ventilation at end of life may be more common in Asian Americans
Researchers used a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to compare receipt of invasive mechanical ventilation among Asian American and White patients hospitalized in the last 30 days of life.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/05/4.htm
5 May 2021
December 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/
Safety-net hospitals sent more patients to postacute facilities under bundled payments
A study of hospitals participating in Medicare's bundled payment program found that those with safety-net status didn't differ from others on postdischarge care cost or quality, but discharged a higher percentage of patients to institutions and a lower percentage to home health care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/24/3.htm
24 Nov 2021
July 26, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/26/
In the News
Inpatient antibiotic prescribing, bundled payments and joint replacement costs, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/in-the-news.htm
15 Dec 2016
Politics and the wellness of our foreign-born colleagues
Travel bans and visa-law changes in a volatile political arena can affect the morale of a large number of physicians, in training and established in practice, as well as international students enrolled in medical schools in the United States.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/perspectives-politics-and-foreign-born-colleagues.htm
15 Oct 2017