Search results for "Education"
Adding up adverse events
Patient safety experts talk about the latest data and what hospitalists can do to improve them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/adding-up-adverse-events.htm
7 Jun 2023
Even the smallest steps can bring big changes
A physician offers tips on how hospitalists can make more use of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/free/even-the-smallest-steps-can-bring-big-changes.htm
7 Jun 2023
Chief resident-led medical procedure service appears safe, successful
Internal medicine chief residents trained and supervised interns in ultrasound-guided procedures during a four-week rotation. Rates of overall procedure success, complications, and major complications were 94%, 2.6%, and 0.6%, respectively, according to analysis from 2011 to 2022.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/chief-resident-led-medical-procedure-service-appears-safe-successful.htm
7 Jun 2023
Treating addiction behind bars
Incarcerated patients have a right to medication for opioid use disorder, and hospitalists can help them access it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/31/treating-addiction-behind-bars.htm
31 May 2023
MD and DO hospitalists provide care of similar cost and quality
A retrospective study of hospitalized Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries found no differences in 30-day mortality, readmissions, length of stay, or spending between those cared for by physicians with an allopathic versus an osteopathic degree.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/31/md-and-do-hospitalists-provide-care-of-similar-cost-and-quality.htm
31 May 2023
Replace diagnostic errors with excellence
Five strategies can help hospitalists achieve diagnostic excellence, a researcher says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/free/replace-diagnostic-errors-with-excellence.htm
24 May 2023
Early palliative care did not improve quality of life in cancer surgery patients
The trial randomly assigned participants scheduled for intra-abdominal cancer operations to receive either usual care or an intervention including preoperative consultation with palliative care specialists and postoperative inpatient and outpatient palliative care follow-up for 90 days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/early-palliative-care-did-not-improve-quality-of-life-in-cancer-surgery-patients.htm
24 May 2023
ACP advises on improving transitions of care
The authors of a recent College policy paper talked about how patients can be handed off more safely.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/10/acp-advises-on-improving-transitions-of-care.htm
10 May 2023
Readmission project failed to reduce readmissions or mortality, Swiss study finds
An accompanying editorial by Robert M. Wachter, MD, MACP, offered thoughts on why several recent interventions haven't budged readmissions and where to go from here.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/10/readmission-project-failed-to-reduce-readmissions-or-mortality-swiss-study-finds.htm
10 May 2023
Current internal medicine residents favor returning to in-person recruitment
Most internal medicine residents thought that virtual recruitment led medical students to apply to more programs and take more interviews, a fall 2021 survey found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/03/current-internal-medicine-residents-favor-returning-to-in-person-recruitment.htm
3 May 2023